For me, it evokes Catholic school uniforms, ink stains, and sadness. Maggie Nelsonīlue is my favorite color, too. I think of these people as my blue correspondents, whose job it is to send me blue reports from the field. I have been introduced to a man who had one of his front teeth replaced with lapis lazuli and to another who worships blue so devoutly he refuses to eat blue food ġ5. Mostly what happens in such cases is that people give you stories or leads or gifts, and then you can play with these things instead of with words. I have enjoyed telling people that I am writing a book about blue without actually doing it. Han Kang’s The White Book is a meditation on the color white, using it as a vehicle to explore death, mourning, and rebirth.ġ4. She is not the only person to fall for a shade. The genesis for Bluets apparently lies in Nelson’s obsession with the color blue. 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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