Bluets

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. | "Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color." "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"--Provided by publisher Maggie Nelson is widely and critically well-regarded as a poet, prose writer and art critic; her works spans various audiences and communities, in academia, art circles and among readers. Maggie Nelson and her work have been profiled in such periodicals as Artforum, Bookforum, the Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New York Times Book Review and the Village Voice, among numerous other high-profile venues. Bluets is the perfect title for course adoption in the burgeoning MFA/academic field of creative non-fiction/literary essay writing.