Books and depression fill Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s essay “Blue Like You” over at This Recording.
“The treatment was very gentle and it was very nice and it helped me go to sleep at night but it dyed everything a kind of blue. So I read William Gass’ On Being Blue and Maggie Nelson’s Bluets and every Bukowski poem with the word “blue” in the text.”
(Via Poetry Foundation)
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