Bluets Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, $14 (paper) Maggie Nelson never claims that Bluets is a reply to William Gass’s On Being Blue: a Philosophical Inquiry, but she does take Gass on in her brilliant book on suffering, loss, love, and www.doorway.ru the 61st of short, often interrelated prose sections, Nelson writes, Gass “argues that what we readers really want is ‘the penetration of. maggie nelson blvets. maggie s rook s women. the new york sc. ho other true abstraction s: thing bright, so me- the red parts; then holes: an o jane: a murder (finalist, the pen/ martha award for art o v the mem- it rent l v at c: at, arts and 1. ives in s an g e t. Bluets Quotes Showing of “Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.”. ― Maggie Nelson, Bluets. tags: beauty, loneliness, sadness, thought-provoking. likes.
10 Responses to Bluets by Maggie Nelson. SimplyMe says: July 2, at pm. I have requested Bluets and The Argonauts through our library system and am looking forward to reading both. As an aside, on the beaches here one can still find bright blue trade beads from the time when the indigenous peoples and British-based companies exchanged. Poet, scholar, and nonfiction writer Maggie Nelson earned a PhD in English literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her work is often described as genre crossing or hybrid; she has noted her interest in poet Eileen Myles's idea of "vernacular scholarship," adding, "I need to talk back, or talk with, theorists and philosophers in ordinary language, to dramatize how much their ideas. Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holi.
Brick Posted on Novem. Maggie Nelson’s Bluets takes aim at one of today’s most beloved forms of writing—the autobiography—coyly challenging the genre’s attachment to truthful stories of the self and the form thought best to convey them: that of the realist novel. To hear the mass media speak of it, the mere suggestion of embellishment, never mind invention, disrupts the hopeful economy of memoirs in which a writer bares their soul and the reader feels less alone. maggie s rook s women. the new york sc. ho other true abstraction s: thing bright, so me- the red parts; then holes: an o jane: a murder (finalist, the pen/ martha award for art o v the mem- it rent l v at c: at, arts and 1. ives in s an g e t. e s. wave books essay/literature isbn Bluets Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, $14 (paper) Maggie Nelson never claims that Bluets is a reply to William Gass’s On Being Blue: a Philosophical Inquiry, but she does take Gass on in her brilliant book on suffering, loss, love, and language. In the 61st of short, often interrelated prose sections, Nelson writes, Gass “argues that what.
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