![]() But her friend “has never held any hierarchy of grief, either before her accident or after, which seems to me nothing less than a form of enlightenment”. ![]() She knows her own sufferings and those of her friend are incommensurable: “Is it a related form of aggrandisement, to inflate a heartbreak into a sort of allegory?” she asks. The propositions that compose Bluets were collected across three years of slowly dwindling sadness, from 2003 to 2006, as Nelson recovered from a heartbreak while caring for a close friend rendered quadriplegic. Maggie Nelson calls them “propositions”, evoking pre-Socratic philosophical fragments or the Remarks on Colour jotted down by Wittgenstein in the months before he died. ![]() B luets is a meditation on love and grief an exploration of loss a reverie of blue a syncopated arrangement of 240 prose poems – at least bookshops often file it under “poetry”. ![]()
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