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An unexpected celebration of two of the most famous female poets of all time - Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath - and an inspired essay on female ambition by the beloved cult author of Bluets and The Argonauts In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and pouring forth - and as twinned targets of patriarchy's ancient urge to disparage, trivialise and demonise such prolific, intimate output. The Slicks is a heady, rallying and unexpected melding of popular culture and literary criticism - an inspired treatise and unexpected celebration of two iconic female poets by one of the most revered and influential critics of her generation.

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Among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation -- Olivia Laing One of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic -- Sinéad Gleeson Always brilliant -- Geoff Dyer Her words come as though from a great distance and strike incredibly close -- Anne Enright Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating -- Eula Biss Maggie Nelson who writes with such passion, clarity, explicitness, fluidity, playfulness and generosity that she redefines what thinking can do today -- Wayne Koestenbaum

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Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of prose and poetry including The Red Parts, Bluets, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner The Argonauts, On Freedom, Like Love and, most recently, Pathemata. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

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