In this small book of poems, Nelson paints her life in the color blue and brings readers along on her journey of discovering love, loss, and grief. Through witty prose and heartfelt poetry, we travel through Nelson's life and how she marks her life and the tragic events relayed to us with the color blue. It is personified as the author's most trusted and constant companion and in reading Bluets, it becomes a guiding hand for readers as well.
—Peili
— From Staff PicksSuppose 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.