Shiner

Maggie Nelson

“I didn’t mean to hurt you, I am/ a beginner beginning to lose// sight of what I was beginning, I am/ beginning a house I am beginning// to grow filaments,” explains Nelson’s speaker, evoking the stutter, rush, repetition and impossibility of high-stakes communication. Her self-exacting speakers articulate the 20-something’s struggle to understand, be understood, stay interested, get it right: “You have this many lines/ to get it done what? / Delineate the undelineatable/ i.e. cloud, motivation.”

status	Copy #1 (7112): in
genre	Literature and Fiction » Poetry
publisher	Hanging loose
publish date	2001
popularity	checked out 1 time(s)