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Bluets by Maggie Nelson

not “poetry” by academia standards perhaps but I think it’s got lyric essay (kick ass lyric essay at that) written all over it. I’ll share some excerpts today to showcase Nelson’s style some. For now: a quick synoposis via Bookslut:

Maggie Nelson’s Bluets opens with the line, “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.” Something that began as “[a]n appreciation, an affinity” became something “more serious” and then “it became somehow personal.” In this case the color is blue and what follows is a philosophical investigation into loss, pain, and suffering. In the 240 prose entries the book consists of, Nelson deals with the personal loss of a relationship and witnesses the physical suffering of a friend who became a quadriplegic following an accident (something Nelson also wrote about in her 2007 poetry collection, Something Bright, Then Holes), all while returning again and again to the color blue.

 All in all, very intriguing and mysterious read. Buy it, k?