"I knew it all along. The heart of the world is blue."(p. 90) This wasn't what I expected.I’m feeling a bit like a prude but this was unexpectedly vulgar for me? I came in thinking it would be about the color blue, grief, lovesickness, love, loss, etc. Those elements are present but so is a lot of m...
Nelson's collection is divided into three distinct sections, but almost all of the poems included have a sense of vulnerability and melancholy. There is a focus on loss - lost love, lost mobility, lost time - the wreckage of broken relationships, hearts, and bodies. The first section, field journals...
Τα αντιθετικά πλέγματα που υποβάλλει η κοινωνία στο άτομο (μητρότητα-σεξουαλικότητα, άνδρας-γυναίκα) συνυπάρχουν, ή προσπαθούν να συνυπάρξουν, σε ένα αρμονικό σύνολο, με τη γραφή της συγγραφέως να προσεγγίζει το φάσμα ταυτοτήτων, σεξουαλικών και μη, συνδιαλεγομένη με φιλοσόφους και ψυχολόγους, αλλά ...
The Red Parts tells the story of Maggie Nelsons aunt Jane, who has been brutally murdered in 1969. 35 years after her death the real perpetrator has been caught and an arrest is about to happen (prior to this the death of Jane Mixer has been attributed to the "Michigan Murder" killer). Nelson takes ...
I just started reading this without getting any type of information or backstory. I felt lost for a bit. It was hard for me to follow what she was talking about sometimes because it skips around different topics continually. It felt kind of like a diary entry or something to me sometimes. After I...
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson was the May book from the feminist book club on Goodreads called Our Shared Shelf started by Emma Watson. This book was written in a style that I was completely unfamiliar with and which at first really threw me off. It's written almost as a stream of consciousness whe...
Personally, I loved the rambling style of the book. At first, it was a little annoying. I was never sure if she was talking to me as the reader directly, if she was talking to her partner, herself, or just the world in general the way any other nonfiction writer might. I was never certain what the t...
“Bluets” is best described using an anecdote by Nelson herself that is mentioned in the book, about how she visited a museum in order to finally experience Yves Klein’s blue canvases, only to then find them overwhelmingly saturated. The same can be said about “Bluets”, and it all begins with the fac...
My favorite color is blue. From a recommendation from a friend, I found a copy of Bluets and in the process found my favorite new bookstore in Tucson. So, a win all around. Maggie Nelson has organized Bluets into a series of propositions, she calls them, and each one varies from a few lines to signi...
Nelson's courage and valiant despair sculpt her numbered prose poems into a philosophy and geometry of blue. Andy Warhol, Joseph Cornell, Mickey Mouse, Joni Mitchell and Plato are put into the wavering conversational sea of guilt and desire. Between writing of pain and exposing pained writing, Nelso...
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