Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelsonis an American writer. She is the author of five books of nonfiction, including "The Argonauts", "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning", "Bluets", "The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial,", and "Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions". Her books of poetry include Something Bright, Then Holes, The Latest Winter, and Shiner. The Argonauts won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and was a New York Times best-seller. The Art of Cruelty, a work of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.
I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.
For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.