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Bluets poetry5/11/2023 ![]() What makes us feel the way we do, and why? And more importantly: does it matter, the reason? Bluets is a complex dive into the wide blue ocean from a very high diving board. There's a way in which Nelson's "Bluets" is bereft meditation on not just the color blue, but the things we love. It would be wet - like tears, like medicine, like libido. It would be sad but sexy, researched, but not dry. ![]() That book would be quick, lovely, and deeply intelligent. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a book. No matter what you call it, Nelson's language is precise like poetry, startling like memoir, and captivating like fiction. Is Bluets poetry? Is it memoir? Some have shelved it as fiction, which it most certainly is not. "In which case blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire." ![]() ![]() A little late to this party I nevertheless feel Nelson's blue, its radiance. ![]()
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