(Rediff) Episode 62 - Maggie Nelson - 🇬🇧

Pendant la coupure estivale, Lauren Bastide vous invite à (ré)écouter certains des épisodes les plus marquants de La Poudre 🔥 Aujourd'hui on (ré)écoute le passionnant épisode avec Maggie Nelson qui nous aide à penser le queer et le rapport des femmes à la violence avec une poésie inégalable. Cet épisode de La Poudre est disponible à l’écoute dans une version doublée en français. Cliquez ici pour l’écouter. The incredible author and thinker Maggie Nelson is the guest of the 52nd episode of La Poudre. With Lauren Bastide, they talked about about Judith Butler, violence and love. Lauren’s foreword It’s funny, these past few days, bluets have appeared among poppies and dandelions in the small meadow near the river. I gathered them and put them to dry between the pages 58 and 59. In the river, a lapis lazuli sparkle catches my eye in the water. My hand dives in the water. I take the object. It’s a piece of mosaic, maybe a swimming pool tile. As blue as the river. As blue bluets. As blue as a bruise on my thigh, as my soul on summer evenings, as my pen’s ink on my notebook. Episode summary Maggie Nelson was born in 1973 in San Francisco where she grew up (08:50). Her parents, high-school sweethearts who were married very young, divorced a year before her father’s death from a heart attack. This tragic event, as well as her family’s story - especially her mother’s sister murder - left their mark on her adolescence (17:16). She moved to New York to go to university and met there important litterary figures such as Eileen Miles or Annie Dillard who both influenced and inspired the young writer she was becoming. She started publishing poetry in 2001 and Jane, a Murder, her first essay in which she explored and confronted her aunt’s death, went out in 2005. Coincidentally, the trial on Jane’s death was reopened at the same time. She published her first novel on the subject, The Red Parts, in which her writing style, between very structured notes and refe