I know of no other book like this, and I know how crucially the culture needs it." - Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave and Knocking Myself Up With a fiercely vulnerable intelligence, Nelson leaves no area un-investigated, including her own heart. "Once again, Maggie Nelson has created awe-inspiring work, one that smartly calls bullshit on the places culture-radical subcultures included-stigmatize and misunderstand both maternity and queer family-making. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart." - Kim Gordon "In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. An insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of sexuality, gender, and family. Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family
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