Bluets by Maggie Nelson: book review
Bluets by Maggie Nelson I picked up Bluets from the library unsure what to expect, other than that it was on the recommendation of a poet-friend and that it was a very famous collection. I think I did expect something that more resembled a collection of poetry, though it is probably wrong to think so simply about what that looks like. Either way, I didn't expect these short vignettes that most often resemble paragraphs, numbered down the page, rambling into and out of one another. After much googling, I have learned that there are many opinions about what form Bluets is and how successfully it meets these standards, as one would expect of a book with this level of popularity and that's been out so long. The general consensus is that it is a poetry collection that sits somewhere between lyric essay and prose poem depending on what you're more inclined to. This seems correct, and I guess, in many ways, it read as more essayistic to me, likely because my understandi...
