{"product_id":"a-matter-of-blue","title":"A Matter of Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the French with an Introduction by Dawn Cornelio, \u003cem\u003eA Matter of Blue\u003c\/em\u003e has gone through multiple French printings and is noted poet, essayist, and critic Jean-Michel Maulpoix\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es most publicly and critically-acclaimed book. Throughout the collection, prose poems and blank verse operate on a recognizable, accessible level, offering a narrative voice struggling for understanding in a postmodern, sometimes desolate world. In\u003cem\u003e A Matter of Blue,\u003c\/em\u003e Jean-Michel Maulpoix uses the color blue to encompass melancholy and nostalgia, but also the joy and hope inherent in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The Blue Look\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDark-eyed women have a blue gaze.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlue is the color of looking, of the inside of the soul and of thought, of waiting, dreaming and sleep.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe enjoy blending all the colors into one. From the wind, the sea, the snow, the very soft pink of skin, the red of laughing lips, insomnia's white rings around the green of the eyes, and the flaking, faded guilding of leaves, we manufacture blue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe dream of a blue land, of round-colored land, new as the first day, and curved as a woman’s body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe become accustomed to not seeing infinity clearly, and are patient on the edge of the invisible. We convert the discordance of our life into music. This blue that envelopes our heart delivers us from our lameness. In times of sorrow, we spread it like salve on our finitude. This is why we love the sound of the cello and summer evenings: what rocks us and puts us to sleep. When the day comes, the illusion of love will close our eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eA Matter of Blue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eEven if the gods\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e presence can no longer be taken for granted, blue still remains to accompany us in our daily lives, although it may suffer from fatigue and be unsure of its own strength.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Dawn Cornelio, \u003cem\u003efrom the translator\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2005\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions. Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8418054213,"sku":"9781929918676","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":9304496709,"sku":"9781929918669","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/9781929918676.jpg?v=1527683160","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/a-matter-of-blue","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}