Expectations are merely guidelines they decide not to follow. But what does “technically” mean to a poet anyway? Poets, by nature, or at least the good ones, the memorable ones, defy any kind of technical convention. This is a review of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, a 100-page book of poems published in 2009.Īctually I’m not sure this book technically counts as a book of poems. Like when you need a book of poems to review for class, and at a party a friend suggests one to you randomly, you’re not even talking about poetry but she says “you should read this book” and she hands it to you and you’re not really into poetry but you do need a book for class, so you ask to borrow it, and when you get it approved by the instructor, she admits she has recently finished reading that same book (even though it came out six years ago) and her friend in the room pulls out his own copy of the book and says “I’ve been reading it too” and naturally it is approved and it ends up keeping a permanent space in your backpack even though you hardly have the time to read it. It’s odd how the universe works sometimes, and things come to your life at seemingly perfect moments.
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