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Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth
Reader Score
79%
79% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
Based on 4 reviews on
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life.In scrupulously distilled prose, Pathemata offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in recent history, as well as an abiding account of how it feels to inhabit a mortal body in struggle to connect with others. Formally inspired by Hervé Guibert's The Mausoleum of Lovers, and conceptually guided by Gilles Deleuze's notion of artist as symptomologist, Pathemata is yet another urgent innovation from Maggie Nelson in the art of life-writing.
Book Details
- Publisher: Wave Books
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2025
- Pages: 80
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.90in - 0.60in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9798891060111
- Categories: • Women Authors• Essays• Comparative Literature
About the Author
Nelson, Maggie: -
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
Previous Praise BluetsBalancing pathos with philosophy, she created a new kind of classicism, queer in content but elegant, almost cool in shape.
Hilton Als, The New Yorker
It's an impossible book to describe without simply handing it to you; it is, hackneyed as it is to say, a book to be experienced. I can only report that I am reading it again and again, that the resonances between the (seemingly) disparate propositions are startling and emotional, that I suspect your reaction will be different and also quite wonderful.
Peter Rock, The Rumpus
Nelson's expressive style springs from her subject as much as the content, in turn, inflects her vocabulary, tone and structure. Seeking such reciprocity--no less an ideal than, say, "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"--may radically redefine poetry, as it increasingly becomes the genre that is not one.
Albert Mobilio, Bookforum
Hilton Als, The New Yorker
It's an impossible book to describe without simply handing it to you; it is, hackneyed as it is to say, a book to be experienced. I can only report that I am reading it again and again, that the resonances between the (seemingly) disparate propositions are startling and emotional, that I suspect your reaction will be different and also quite wonderful.
Peter Rock, The Rumpus
Nelson's expressive style springs from her subject as much as the content, in turn, inflects her vocabulary, tone and structure. Seeking such reciprocity--no less an ideal than, say, "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"--may radically redefine poetry, as it increasingly becomes the genre that is not one.
Albert Mobilio, Bookforum