![]() ![]() In that way it is also a reflection on colour-perception and I also loved the inquisitive nature of Nelson’s propositions (it’s the academic in her) because she quotes Wittgenstein and Goethe in various parts. ![]() ![]() The book is a love-letter to the colour blue, a homage to her obsession with it. There is not a chronologic or thematic order but everything revolves around the colour blue. Also, there are personal references to Maggie Nelson’s academic life, friendships, relationships and past. These propositions reflect on various things: love and loss, heartbreak and grief, sex, desire and pleasure. ![]() I love the fact that it is a non-classifiable book: is it poetry? yes, but it’s also prose, and it’s a list and kind of a draft and a diary and a collection of mini essays. The book is almost like a list and its items, which Nelson called “propositions” are numbered, there are 240 of them. The first thing I liked about this book was its format, because I was not expecting a book that resists being labelled one genre or another. Before reading Bluets I was already hyped and I had never read anything by Maggie Nelson and I thought the book was, for that is what friends had told me, a poetry collection… I was surprised to find it isn’t. I don’t think so many friends have recommended me the same book which such vehemence in any other occasion. “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.” Maggie Nelson ![]()
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