![]() ![]() The word freedom seems simple enough on its face: the power to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint-having the ability to act or change without constraint. Indeed, Nelson posits her book within a musical framework, as indicated by the subtitle: Four Songs of Care and Constraint. When she works her own experiences into her treatise, however, it sings. The list of works cited runs for twenty-four-and-a-half pages, in addition to an eight-page index of names as well as thirty-two pages of notes. On Freedom is an academic search, peppered with viewpoints from all the sources Nelson has consulted-and there are many. She invites readers to accompany her on a journey of discovery. In this work of cultural criticism, Maggie Nelson considers the concept of freedom in four distinct territories: art, sex, drugs, and climate. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929, p. ![]() That you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, Septem288 pages $27.00 ISBN 978-1-64445-062-8 hardcover). A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishersīy Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor ![]()
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