Pathemata, 9781911717454
Hardcover
Chronic pain, loss, and love explored in a poetic dreamscape.

Pathemata

or, the story of my mouth

$28.35

  • Hardcover

    80 pages

  • Release Date

    20 May 2025

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Summary

Pathemata: A Chronicle of Pain, Loss, and Resilience

A major and profound, new original work by the author of The Argonauts and Bluets.

It’s not the dream that matters, it’s the telling of the dream - the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind.

This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she set…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781911717454
ISBN-10:1911717456
Author:Maggie Nelson
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Fern Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:80
Release Date:20 May 2025
Weight:173g
Dimensions:206mm x 140mm x 12mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘Among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation’ – Olivia Laing‘One of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic’ – Sinéad Gleeson‘Always brilliant’ – Geoff Dyer‘Her words come as though from a great distance and strike incredibly close’ – Anne Enright‘Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating’ – Eula Biss‘Maggie Nelson who writes with such passion, clarity, explicitness, fluidity, playfulness and generosity that she redefines what thinking can do today’ – Wayne KoestenbaumIn Pathemata, Nelson somehow manages to write with perfect emotional pitch: its melancholia balanced with humour, its moments of grief and pain tempered by joy. Full of warmth, wisdom and weirdness, it is bound to become a classic. I adored it – Jenny Mustard

About The Author

Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of prose and poetry including The Red Parts, Bluets, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner The Argonauts, and On Freedom. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

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