Bluets

Name: Bluets
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Maggie Nelson
ISBN: 9781094071541

Author: Maggie Nelson

Narrator: Maggie Nelson

Unabridged: 2 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 10/29/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections, Social Science, Women's Studies

Synopsis

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color …Since 2009, when it first published, to today, Bluets has drawn scores of readers with its surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human—via 240 short pieces, at once lyrical and philosophical, on the color blue. This new edition celebrates Maggie Nelson’s uncompromising vision, inviting longtime fans and newcomers alike to experience and share in an indispensable work that continues to disrupt the literary landscape.

About Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and award-winning author of The Argonauts, Bluets, The Art of Cruelty, Jane: A Murder , and The Red Parts, among others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma

periodically, i have to check to see if i still dislike poetry. for character development. unfortunately, this has had, in this case, an unforeseen side effect: THIS TIME, I DID. i read this last month (okay, two months ago, what about it i’m terribly behind) and i felt this sneaky sinking feeling i......more

Goodreads review by Roxane

Exquisite, lyrical, exquisite, exquisite, exquisite.......more

Goodreads review by cameron

i really do not know how to rate this. i was pretty uninterested for most of it and felt like the writing was trying too hard, but the. there are a few lines that really spoke to me. i enjoyed that she used so many quotes from others but i felt they over shadowed her own writing as they tended to be......more

Goodreads review by julieta

Beautiful and lyrical celebration of the color blue. Related also to, well, feeling blue, out of loss. Liked it even better the second time around. She revolves around the color blue, to talk of sadness, of losing love, she goes through many referencies, from Wittgenstein, to Leonard Cohen, Van Gogh,......more

Quotes

“An elegant, indispensable addition to the genre of the lyric essay.” Boston Review

“Nelson relates a history of blue from philosophical, zoological, and literary perspectives, all the while weaving in bits of memoir and emotional rumination. Through this collage, she broadens the definition of blue from a merely visual phenomenon to a vehicle for the divine.” Time Out New York

“A book to be experienced. I can only report that I am reading it again and again, that the resonances between the (seemingly) disparate propositions are startling and emotional, that I suspect your reaction will be different and also quite wonderful.” The Rumpus

“Bluets is smart yet intimate, quiet yet provocative, and a welcome addition to the poetic nonfiction discourse.” Bomb

“May radically redefine poetry, as it increasingly becomes the genre that is not one.” Bookforum