Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone
Arrangements in Blue
by Amy Key
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1324091738 | 228 pages | True EPUB | 6.59 MB
by Amy Key
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1324091738 | 228 pages | True EPUB | 6.59 MB
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"The poet Amy Key's first book might be the most hyped memoir of 2023 (or at least a close second to Spare)… This raw, gorgeous, pulsing memoir is…the harbinger of a real talent." —Laura Hackett, Sunday Times [UK]
Amy Key—a writer "of rare and strange magic" (Guardian)—probes the art of living without romance in this soul-stirring debut.
When British poet Amy Key was growing up, she envisioned a life shaped by love—and Joni Mitchell's album Blue was her inspiration. "Blue became part of my language of intimacy," she writes, recalling the dozens of times she played the record as a teen, "an intimacy of disclosure, vulnerability, unadorned feeling that I thought I'd eventually share with a romantic other." As the years ticked by, she held on to this very specific idea of romance like a bottle of wine saved for a special occasion.
But what happens…