Bluets

About Bluets

Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) consists of 240 numbered propositions about the color blue — ranging across Wittgenstein, Yves Klein, Derek Jarman, Emily Dickinson, and the science of color perception — interleaved with the experience of grief and desire following the end of a significant relationship. A cult classic of American lyric nonfiction and a landmark of the hybrid essay form, Bluets investigates what it means to love a color and uses that obsession as a frame for thinking about obsession, longing, and the nature of meaning itself.