![]() As one reads, the book, despite its progression, loses its linearity and feels circular, porous, a tad unstable". The goal (if there is one) is nomadic, a sort of nomadic mosaic. ![]() The critic Thomas Larson refers to the structure as a "nomadic mosaic": "Its structure is built by pulling away from the core and by keeping attached to the core. ![]() Nelson shuffled the propositions around "countless times" before arriving at their final order. The propositions are arranged neither chronologically nor thematically, but in each one, Nelson produces links between different blues and their associations. Each proposition is either a sentence or a short paragraph, none longer than two hundred words the book totals some nineteen thousand words. ![]() That contains an arrangement of 240 loosely-linked prose poems which Nelson refers to as "propositions". ![]()
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