Shiner

£10.99

In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics ‘The Argonauts’ and ‘Bluets’. The poems of ‘Shiner’ experiment with a variety of styles – syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems – to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty.

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In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems-to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty. This book, Nelson’s first, heralded the arrival of a fully formed, virtuoso voice.

Additional information

Weight 102 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 0.9 cm
Author

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

84

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

811.6 (edition:23)

Readership

Professional and scholarly / Code: H