[3][4] The book is a philosophical and personal meditation on the color blue, lost love, grief and existential solitude.
[4] Bluets is a "formal experiment"[3] that contains an arrangement of 240 loosely-linked prose poems which Nelson refers to as "propositions".
As one reads, the book, despite its progression, loses its linearity and feels circular, porous, a tad unstable".
[1][4] However, most of the text is an analysis of her reading, often referring to other writers' reflections on the color blue, art, literature, philosophy, emotion and female desire.
[1][4][3] The references include Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sei Shōnagon, Catherine Millet, Chögyam Trungpa, Isabelle Eberhardt, John Berger, and Marguerite Duras.