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.
Maggie Nelson
is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including
Something Bright, Then Holes
(Soft Skull Press, 2007) and
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
(University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.