This multifaceted, and at times contradictory use of colour is complemented by Nelson’s poetic prose as a form that flows between multiple literary constructs, creating a work that guides the reader through the loss and yearning of the narrator of Bluets. In Bluets the reader is confronted with the highly evocative and subjective nature of colour, juxtaposed with its role as both mediator, cultural marker and symbol. Nelson’s blue has a spectral quality that it shares with other elements in her poetic prose. Maggie Nelson, in her book Bluets (2009), singles out one colour, blue, for special attention, however, it becomes clear very quickly that no colour can exist in isolation, despite the narrator attempting to seek it out in its most pure and powerful forms. ‘Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour…’ Image By User:A,Ocram – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
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