![]() Nelson calls the passages that comprise Bluets “propositions.” The inspiration for Bluets reportedly derives from all three sources: the philosophical tract, lyric poem, and autobiography. ![]() I, on the other hand, bought Bluets thinking that I would get a collection of lyric essays. How to classify it? If bookshops are any guide, then Bluets is a collection of prose poems, a term that itself defies definition. in 2009 but did not arrive in the UK (and thence, in English, to continental Europe) until 2015 after Nelson had proven with The Argonauts that she could sell books.īluets is a slim volume of 240 brief numbered passages. These are the opening lines of Maggie Nelson’s work, Bluets. Suppose I were to speak this as though it were a confession Maggie Nelson, Bluets (Jonathan Cape 2009) ![]() Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color. ![]()
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