The Art of Cruelty (2011) is a study of the avant-garde that rethinks the boundaries between art and life that much of twentieth century art worked so hard to perform. She has written two books about the murder of her aunt, Jane: A Murder (2005), which thinks through the trauma of the event, and The Red Parts (2007), a more documentary account of criminal and social justice, that accounts for new evidence that emerged while writing the first. Bluets (2009) is a whole book of what might be called poetry, about the colour blue, which is also, of course, about other things: desire, heartbreak, loss. Unsettling definitions and reworking categories is not only the modus operandi of her writing, but also its subject matter. The author of four books of poetry and five books of non-fiction, she extends the possibilities of both forms, refusing to settle for, or into, either.
Nothing, it seems, falls outside Maggie Nelson’s field of inquiry.
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