02082cam a2200313 i 4500 889028846 TxAuBib 20230816120000.0 230421s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023015835 9781324091738 HRD 28.00 1324091738 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Key, Amy, author Arrangements in blue. Arrangements in blue [BOOK] : notes on loving and living alone / Amy Key. First American edition. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2023. 223 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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 when the romance we are all told will give life meaning never presents itself??Now single in her forties, Key explores the sweeping scales of romantic feeling as she has encountered them, using the album Blue as an expressive anchor: from the low notes of loss and unfulfilled desire―punctuated by sharp, discordant feelings of jealousy and regret―to the deep harmony of friendship, and the crescendos of sexual attraction and self-realization. Provided by publisher. 20230816. Key, Amy. Poets, English 21st century Biography. Single women Great Britain Biography. Autobiographies. Essays.