A Matter of Blue

Translated from the French with an Introduction by Dawn Cornelio, A Matter of Blue has gone through multiple French printings and is noted poet, essayist, and critic Jean-Michel Maulpoix’s 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 A Matter of Blue, Jean-Michel Maulpoix uses the color blue to encompass melancholy and nostalgia, but also the joy and hope inherent in life. “The Blue Look” Dark-eyed women have a blue gaze. Blue is the color of looking, of the inside of the soul and of thought, of waiting, dreaming and sleep. We 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. We dream of a blue l