Bluets
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Maggie Nelson
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Author
Maggie Nelson
Pages
112
Publisher
Wave Books
Published Date
2009-10-01
ISBN
1933517646 9781933517643
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"beautiful & impactful"
alex
"Gorgeous, heartbreaking "
Kaity Hammerstein
"A gorgeous coffee table read. Delicious writing I could read over and over. My intention was to spend each morning reading bits of it but I ended up reading it in one sit. "
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Ayla LaRoe
"odd"
Khawlah Usmani
"my fav book is probably Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory or Call Me By Your Name 🥲💘 im usually not huge on poetry but i love Bluets"
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hailey
"3.5<br/><br/>The color blue has countless subtle variations, and Bluets captures all of its nuances through beautiful ruminations.<br/><br/>Nelson's thoughts are fragmented at times, and the transition between them can be a bit jarring, leaving little time for the reader to form coherent connections between them. However, that's okay, as Bluets is obviously more poetry than prose. Bluets' blue-hued cogitations may be better consumed in small doses, lest its reading become reminiscent of perusing an exhaustive catalogue of the color.<br/><br/>Despite any shortcomings of Bluets' continuity, the reader is sure to find valuable sapphire gems of insight among its pages. And so, stepping back to view her canvas as whole, Nelson has painted colorful visions with varying brushstrokes that yield an intricate tapestry of blues that is as deep as it is wide."
Colin Merrill
"I just finished Field Study by Chet’la Sebree. Reminded me a little of bluets but not quite. It was very good. Also reading The book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. Beautiful writing. I can’t put it down "
j b
"This book is fantastic, raw and gritty, unabashedly frank, and moving. Maggie Nelson's writing is beautiful and lyrical. The way she uses language and her imagery punch me in the face lol. It really was such a pleasure to have my breath taken away again and again by some insight she had gained and found. And then she further found a way to use words to describe the indescribable. This is a work I will come back to again and again. And I look forward to reading more of her work. 5⭐s"
Alice Hall