![]() ![]() But now that they have been shuffled around countless times–now that they have been made to appear, at long last, running forward as one river–how could either of us tell the difference?Įmphasis mine–because I felt rocked by this idea, that all these numbered propositions had been shuffled. I could have written half of these propositions drunk or high, for instance, and half sober I could have written half in agonized tears, and half in a state of clinical detachment. 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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