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The Slicks

On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift

Maggie Nelson

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English
Fern Press
13 November 2025
An unexpected celebration of two of the most famous female poets of all time - Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath - and an inspired treatise on female ambition by the adored 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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Imprint:   Fern Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 161mm,  Width: 111mm,  Spine: 5mm
Weight:   50g
ISBN:   9781911717652
ISBN 10:   1911717650
Pages:   80
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

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.

Reviews for The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift

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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