Bleuets
By Maggie Nelson
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Non-fiction, Poetry
Genre: creative non-fiction, memoir
Read on 2020-02-05
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★★★☆☆
This book is a mix of prose, poetry, and memoir, organized as a series of over 200 short vignettes and musings on the colour blue. It does that thing that great books do where it spirals deeper and deeper into itself as you read. The author reflects on other philosophical texts on blue, a past lover, her own sexuality, her writing process, and the suffering of her quadriplegic friend. Only gave this one three stars in the end because I find it hard to get that much out of very short pieces of writing, however luscious.
I bought this book at the Strand almost a year ago and recently brought it on a 2-day long work trip to Toronto. I ended up reading this while I was held up at the airport for 15 hours for secondary screening, missing two flights in a row.
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