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Hybrid prose / lyric essay · Medium

Bluets

Maggie Nelson · 2009 · United States

A numbered sequence circling the color blue, desire, grief, philosophy, and looking.

Notes and Misconceptions

It is not simply a book about blue.

Blue is the organizing instrument for attachment, pain, reading, and obsession without pretending those things resolve cleanly.

Best Path

Fragments, grief, philosophy

Reading Paths

  • Form Risk, Consciousness, and Strange Architecture

    Books that ask the reader to follow fragments, reports, propositions, dreams, and engineered voice.

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hybridlyric-essayfragmentsgriefdesirecolorphilosophy