When you trust the wisdom from the art of poetry as a guide to writing your new poems, you put your writing in service of something larger than your own ambitions and impulses.
When you do not allow yourself to follow your impulses, it's not that you are eluding or destroying those impulses. Instead, you're converting what was potentially necessary to your imagination into something darker, less stable, and more insidious.
15. Bluets becomes a space for desire (thwarted), for mystery, for obscurity and unattainability. To explore the space where these intersect in Nelson is the project of the book.