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Bluets book review6/19/2023 ![]() There is no arrogance, no self-aggrandisement, to Nelson’s writing: her prose is beautiful and intelligent without being dehumanised it offers the mind of an academic, the tone of a poet and the emotional investment of a close friend.īluets is about a colour, about a lifelong interest in a colour, in blue. There is a vulnerability on show, in spite of the smarts, that makes Bluets a touching and engaging read, when ordinarily something that flaunts this much book-learning would turn me right off. ![]() It is rich in reference and imagery and it is vaulted in intellectual scope, but unlike the smug clever-clever that mires much intelligent writing, Nelson’s work is both deeply human and irrevocably emotional. I’ve never read any Maggie Nelson before, which is definitely an oversight given how much many of the writers and real life people I like the most rate her work.īluets is the story of a life, viewed in 240 short propositions, like a philosophical text. ![]() When you hear the word blue, what do you think of? The rolling sea? The gorgeous sky over a panoramic vista? That Elton John song I’ve referenced above? The boyband Duncan James used to be in that bombed at Eurovision a few years ago? 1 ![]() “I guess that’s why they call it the bluets” ![]()
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