Elisa Gabbert

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1) The unreality of memory: and other essays

Author

Gabbert, Elisa

Series

FSG originals

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"Poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert's The Unreality of Memory consists of a series of lyrical and deeply researched meditations on what our culture of catastrophe has done to public discourse and our own inner lives. In these tender and prophetic essays, shefocuses in on our daily preoccupation and favorite pastime"--

2) La palabra bonita: A Parent's Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness

Author

Gabbert, Elisa

Language

Español

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Jan Stewart never thought she would live with fear in her own house. “Hold on Tight: A Parent' s Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness” describes her raw and emotional journey raising two children with multiple mental health disorders. Jan details the roller coaster lives and challenges that both children have faced in detail, from the time they were born to the present as young adults in their 30s. Pulling no punches, Jan describes moments...

3) L' Heure Bleue

Author

Gabbert, Elisa

Language

English

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Elisa Gabbert's L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems, goes inside the mind of Judy, one of three characters in Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, a play about the dissolution of a marriage in the midst of political revolution. In these poems, Gabbert imagines a back story and an emotional life for Judy beyond and outside the play. Written in a voice that is at once intellectual and unselfconscious, these poems create a character study of a many-layered...

4) Any Person Is the Only Self

Author

Gabbert, Elisa

Language

English

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Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory. Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love? In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside books of all kinds: dog-eared and destroyed,...

5) Normal distance: poems

Author

Gabbert, Elisa

Pub. Date

2022.

Edition

First Soft Skull edition.

Language

English

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"By turns funny and chilling, these poems collect strange facts, interrogate language, and ask unanswerable questions that offer the pleasure of discovery on nearly every page: How does one suffer "gladly," exactly? How bored are dogs? Which is more frightening, nothing or empty space? Was Wittgenstein sexy? With her sharp observations building to extremely quotable one-liners, the poems in this collection have an aphoristic, ear-wormy quality to...