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Biographical note
Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts, and most recently in the UK, Bluets. She teaches at University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.Nelson’s admiration and enthusiasm for her subjects is a <b>palpable driver of joy and delight</b> . . . A <b>revelatory</b> gathering of beloved art and artists presented with <b>distinctive prose</b>
Kirkus (starred review)
Maggie Nelson's <b>shimmering genius</b> is on full display in this collection
- Cathy Park Hong,
<i>Like Love</i> is a convergence of the most <b>incandescent</b> parts of Maggie Nelson’s inimitable craft
- Johanna Hedva,
One of the most <b>wonderful</b>, <b>poetic minds</b> of this generation
Paste
Maggie Nelson is <b>one of the most unique voices</b> in non-fiction: <b>enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic</b>
- Sinéad Gleeson,
<b>A pleasure to read: incisive, smart and witty,</b> it will leave you looking and love and life anew
i
<i>Like Love</i> may be one of the <b>most movingly specific</b>, the <b>most lovingly unruly celebrations</b> of the ethics of friendship we have
Guardian
A <b>polyphonic assemblage</b> . . . Graceful and aesthetic, deftly crossing boundaries and definitions, a concordant symphony
Irish Times
To read <i>Like Love</i> is to watch [Nelson] circling issues of gender and sexuality, but refracted through a variety of different prisms, so that the end result is a <b>constellation of ideas that seem to be expanding outwards</b>
Telegraph