Bluets

…most beloved work, however, is Bluets (2009). The genre-defying book explores love and heartbreak through 240 prose poems that meditate on the color blue.

Two years later she published Bluets, a series of lyrical prose segments that meditate on the color blue, art, creativity, love, and heartbreak. (The book was inspired by Nelson’s break-up with an unnamed lover and by her friend’s experience after an accident that left her paralyzed.) In a review published…