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Bluets

Name: Bluets
ISBN: 1933517409

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue.

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Maggie Nelson (1)

“Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.”

— Maggie Nelson, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Mirrors, Self-Pity