![]() Writing is, in fact, an astonishing equalizer. It takes the form of 240 “propositions,” which are numbered, and a great revelation came for me with this one:ġ84. It is about pain and loss, and always about blue. It is about Nelson’s obsession with, love for, the color blue it is also about a love affair that has ended it is also about Nelson’s life, in a jumping-in-and-out way. ![]() ![]() So here I am with Maggie Nelson.īluets is an extremely unusual book. (Sorry!) Also, at winter residency, visiting writer Nickole Brown gave an awesome seminar titled “Learning by Design: Using Imitation in Creative Writing,” using the first proposition of Bluets as an exercise that was, for me, fruitful. I can’t recall, either, whether that was a comment personal to my work or generally about Nelson’s. ![]() I’ve been hearing about this writer for a while, and have had her Argonauts on my shelf for a year or more, but someone (I’m sorry, I can’t recall which fine mind) at WVWC said Bluets would be a better place for me to start. ![]()
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