This set of meditations on the colour blue is full of wisdom and beauty. Bluets further confirms Maggie Nelson’s place within the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.īalancing pathos with philosophy, she created a new kind of classicism, queer in content but elegant, almost cool in shape. This beautiful hardcover edition celebrates Maggie Nelson’s uncompromising vision, inviting longtime fans and newcomers alike to experience and share in an indispensable work that continues to disrupt the literary landscape.Ī lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue, while folding in, and responding to, the divergent voices and preoccupations of such generative figures as Wittgenstein, Sei Shonagon, William Gass and Joan Mitchell. Since 2009, when it first published, to today, Bluets has drawn scores of readers with its surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human-via 240 short pieces, at once lyrical and philosophical, on the color blue. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.
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