Anyone who has written about physical pain (me) knows how hard it is to capture. Maggie Nelson does it brilliantly in Pathemata: Or, The Story of My Mouth, which is never singular, and takes in love, mortality, parenting, the pandemic.
My @theguardian.com review: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
My @theguardian.com review: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Pathemata by Maggie Nelson review – a writer’s attempt to describe chronic pain
Woolf said language ‘runs dry’ when it comes to convey the reality of illness. Here is an impressive effort to do just that
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May 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Anyone who has written about physical pain (me) knows how hard it is to capture. Maggie Nelson does it brilliantly in Pathemata: Or, The Story of My Mouth, which is never singular, and takes in love, mortality, parenting, the pandemic.
My @theguardian.com review: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
My @theguardian.com review: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Maggie Nelson has a new book coming out that's described as "something of a companion piece to 2009's BLUETS." !!!! www.wavepoetry.com/products/pat...
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson
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 decad...
www.wavepoetry.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Maggie Nelson has a new book coming out that's described as "something of a companion piece to 2009's BLUETS." !!!! www.wavepoetry.com/products/pat...
Nelson is the kind of writer who could make any topic interesting, but this subject perfectly showcases her talents. In this short, gorgeous prose poem, medical appointments are interspersed with dreams, grief, COVID-era alienation, and a strained marriage. Funny yet harrowing.
Pathemata: Or the Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson
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.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Nelson is the kind of writer who could make any topic interesting, but this subject perfectly showcases her talents. In this short, gorgeous prose poem, medical appointments are interspersed with dreams, grief, COVID-era alienation, and a strained marriage. Funny yet harrowing.
Yes, delighted to interview Maggie Nelson about her stunning new book, PATHEMATA, OR, THE STORY OF MY MOUTH, for the Poetry Project newsletter ⚡🌠
#282 - Fall 2025 > Portholes, Sinkholes, Occasions: An Interview with Maggie Nelson, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth, is a book about pain. It twists and turns, shakes and breaks with the search for answers, for a respite, for an escape from jaw pain so intense it ruptures sleep,...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Yes, delighted to interview Maggie Nelson about her stunning new book, PATHEMATA, OR, THE STORY OF MY MOUTH, for the Poetry Project newsletter ⚡🌠
Lese „Der gefesselter Prometheus“, denke an „pathemata mathemata“, d. h. lernen durch leiden. Es muss nicht so sein, aber oftmals ist es so.
May 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Lese „Der gefesselter Prometheus“, denke an „pathemata mathemata“, d. h. lernen durch leiden. Es muss nicht so sein, aber oftmals ist es so.
Mais oui Zarine 🤜 : Tout d'elles deux 🌻✨️🌈🤜
"Pathemata" de Maggie Nelson & "Notes à John" de Joan Didion
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"Pathemata" de Maggie Nelson & "Notes à John" de Joan Didion
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October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Mais oui Zarine 🤜 : Tout d'elles deux 🌻✨️🌈🤜
"Pathemata" de Maggie Nelson & "Notes à John" de Joan Didion
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"Pathemata" de Maggie Nelson & "Notes à John" de Joan Didion
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Et demain on cause de maladie et de douleur, de ce que dit la poésie quand elle marche et quand elle ne marche pas, et qu'elle se dit avec Milène Tournier et son Journal ouvert et 31 kilomètres aujourd'hui, et un peu Maggie Nelson et son Pathemata ou Histoire de ma bouche.
February 21, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Et demain on cause de maladie et de douleur, de ce que dit la poésie quand elle marche et quand elle ne marche pas, et qu'elle se dit avec Milène Tournier et son Journal ouvert et 31 kilomètres aujourd'hui, et un peu Maggie Nelson et son Pathemata ou Histoire de ma bouche.
Neue eBooks in unserer Onleihe, u.a. von Christina Maria Landerl, Mina Albich, Maggie Nelson, Karl Schlögel, Shon Faye, Joy Williams und Sandra & Kersty Grether. www.onleihe.com/wien/fronten...
October 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Neue eBooks in unserer Onleihe, u.a. von Christina Maria Landerl, Mina Albich, Maggie Nelson, Karl Schlögel, Shon Faye, Joy Williams und Sandra & Kersty Grether. www.onleihe.com/wien/fronten...
I had a surprise chance to catch up on my reading yesterday and this is certainly going on the literature and medicine syllabus next spring.
www.wavepoetry.com/products/pat...
www.wavepoetry.com/products/pat...
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson
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 decad...
www.wavepoetry.com
May 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I had a surprise chance to catch up on my reading yesterday and this is certainly going on the literature and medicine syllabus next spring.
www.wavepoetry.com/products/pat...
www.wavepoetry.com/products/pat...
Die Krankheit als Odyssee: davon erzählen Maggie Nelson und Hanif Kureishi auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise in ihren neuen Büchern. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Krankheit als Odyssee: Hanif Kureishi und Maggie Nelson erzählen davon
Beide haben in ihren eben erschienenen Büchern "Als meine Welt zerbrach" und "Pathemata" autobiografische und doch verschiedene Zugänge gefunden. Lesenswert!
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October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Die Krankheit als Odyssee: davon erzählen Maggie Nelson und Hanif Kureishi auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise in ihren neuen Büchern. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
“Let us return to pathemata mathemata (learning through pain) and consider its reverse: learning through thrills and pleasure. People have two brains, one when there is skin in the game, one when there is none"
Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Skinned Kneeling" V van Gogh
Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Skinned Kneeling" V van Gogh
July 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“Let us return to pathemata mathemata (learning through pain) and consider its reverse: learning through thrills and pleasure. People have two brains, one when there is skin in the game, one when there is none"
Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Skinned Kneeling" V van Gogh
Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Skinned Kneeling" V van Gogh
Maggie Nelson’s strange new Pathemata was a great read. Short, vulnerable, and slippery. Between dream and reality, as she notes in the acknowledgements. Thanks @vintagebooks.bsky.social for the proof!
February 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Maggie Nelson’s strange new Pathemata was a great read. Short, vulnerable, and slippery. Between dream and reality, as she notes in the acknowledgements. Thanks @vintagebooks.bsky.social for the proof!
“Illness strips you back to an authentic self, but not one you need to meet”. Like Pathemata, Mantel’s Ink in the Blood addresses what Nelson calls “the pain puzzle” (the hunt for a diagnosis). HM is very astute on disorienting hospital spaces, a patient’s loss of autonomy and the trauma of illness.
May 6, 2025 at 7:11 AM
“Illness strips you back to an authentic self, but not one you need to meet”. Like Pathemata, Mantel’s Ink in the Blood addresses what Nelson calls “the pain puzzle” (the hunt for a diagnosis). HM is very astute on disorienting hospital spaces, a patient’s loss of autonomy and the trauma of illness.
A first look at the choices for this year’s ’Reading as a Writer’ (poetry pathway) reading list 🧡
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 PM
A first look at the choices for this year’s ’Reading as a Writer’ (poetry pathway) reading list 🧡
I’m back in the game—the reviewing game, anyway. I read Maggie Nelson’s new book Pathemata in one gulp in one commute, and decided to write about it. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
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Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)
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Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)
From Plague to Palate | Los Angeles Review of Books
B. K. Fischer reviews Maggie Nelson’s “Pathemata, or The Story of My Mouth.”
lareviewofbooks.org
April 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I’m back in the game—the reviewing game, anyway. I read Maggie Nelson’s new book Pathemata in one gulp in one commute, and decided to write about it. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/from...
Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)
lareviewofbooks.org/article/from...
Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)
Pas du tout en état de (re)lire PATHEMATA ou l'histoire de ma bouche de Maggie Nelson, allez hop :
« Je me lève la première pour être seule et aussi parce que ma mâchoire est trop douloureuse pour que je reste au lit.
Le moment est venu de retenir cette leçon. »
#Lurapido
« Je me lève la première pour être seule et aussi parce que ma mâchoire est trop douloureuse pour que je reste au lit.
Le moment est venu de retenir cette leçon. »
#Lurapido
February 12, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Pas du tout en état de (re)lire PATHEMATA ou l'histoire de ma bouche de Maggie Nelson, allez hop :
« Je me lève la première pour être seule et aussi parce que ma mâchoire est trop douloureuse pour que je reste au lit.
Le moment est venu de retenir cette leçon. »
#Lurapido
« Je me lève la première pour être seule et aussi parce que ma mâchoire est trop douloureuse pour que je reste au lit.
Le moment est venu de retenir cette leçon. »
#Lurapido
LIVE MAGIC TOMORROW 4/24: Maggie Nelson discusses new book, Pathemata, with Darcey Steinke via Brooklyn Rail.
Maggie Nelson: Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth | The Brooklyn Rail
Author Maggie Nelson joins author Darcey Steinke for a conversation.
brooklynrail.org
April 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
LIVE MAGIC TOMORROW 4/24: Maggie Nelson discusses new book, Pathemata, with Darcey Steinke via Brooklyn Rail.
I don't know if I know this because I actually know it or because I rear it; I've learned that a a lot of things I think I know are just things I fear.
~ Maggie Nelson, "Pathemata. Or, The Story of My Mouth"
#Lesefrüchte #Bücherliebe
~ Maggie Nelson, "Pathemata. Or, The Story of My Mouth"
#Lesefrüchte #Bücherliebe
December 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I don't know if I know this because I actually know it or because I rear it; I've learned that a a lot of things I think I know are just things I fear.
~ Maggie Nelson, "Pathemata. Or, The Story of My Mouth"
#Lesefrüchte #Bücherliebe
~ Maggie Nelson, "Pathemata. Or, The Story of My Mouth"
#Lesefrüchte #Bücherliebe
Buncha library holds came in at once ⭐
July 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Buncha library holds came in at once ⭐
gave myself this morning to read the new Maggie Nelson all the way through. it’s pretty rare—like almost never—that I actually cry when reading but whewww MN got me today.
March 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
gave myself this morning to read the new Maggie Nelson all the way through. it’s pretty rare—like almost never—that I actually cry when reading but whewww MN got me today.
pathemata mathemata, aus leid lernen
June 14, 2026 at 2:18 PM
pathemata mathemata, aus leid lernen
Si le récit de Maggie Nelson résonne si fortement avec notre époque, c’est parce qu’il s’écrit contre un arrière-plan saturé de récits. Jamais nous n’avons autant raconté nos vies et jamais ce déferlement de stories n’a paru si incapable de dire la douleur réelle. aoc.media/critique/202...
Comment la magie s'échappe de nos vies – sur Pathemata ou l’histoire de ma bouche de Maggie Nelson - AOC media
Avec son nouveau livre Pathemata ou l’histoire de ma bouche, Maggie Nelson traite d’une expérience limite, difficile à partager – la maladie et les sortilèges de la douleur. Si son récit résonne si fo...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Si le récit de Maggie Nelson résonne si fortement avec notre époque, c’est parce qu’il s’écrit contre un arrière-plan saturé de récits. Jamais nous n’avons autant raconté nos vies et jamais ce déferlement de stories n’a paru si incapable de dire la douleur réelle. aoc.media/critique/202...