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Bluets

Bluets

by Maggie Nelson

Published for the first time: 10/1/2009

112 pages, Paperback

Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, Essays, Philosophy, Poetry, Contemporary, Queer

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.

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