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Elisa Gabbert

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Elisa Gabbert writes the On Poetry column for the New York Times and is the author of six collections of poetry, essays, and criticism, including Normal Distance; The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays; The Word Pretty; L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems; The Self Unstable; and The French Exit. ...more

Average rating: 4.15 · 3,052 ratings · 556 reviews · 26 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Unreality of Memory: An...

4.22 avg rating — 1,366 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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The Word Pretty

4.04 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions
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The Self Unstable

4.12 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 2013
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Normal Distance

3.76 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions
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The French Exit

4.24 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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L' Heure Bleue

4.48 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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That Tiny Insane Voluptuous...

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4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2008
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Thanks for Sending the Engine

4.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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The Kind of Beauty That Has...

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Draft: the Journal of Proce...

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The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert
"like a conversation with an interesting person."
The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert
"Loved this book.

Will definitely re-read and recommend.

Intersects memory, time, disaster, climate crisis, media.

Chilling as a pandemic and climate crisis read in terms of disaster reactions and response. "
The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert
"A most delightful collection of essays that examine our role in the hyper-informed world and connect contemporary experiences in new ways, rethinking meaning-making for the 21st century. "
The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert
"this book is a really rewarding intellectual experience. the essays are about living in a world of pain and recall: recent and past disasters, happiness, memory, empathy, perception.

these are not personal essays per se, yet these highly researched t" Read more of this review »
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“Often, when something bad happens, I have a strange, instinctual desire for things to get even worse—I think of a terrible outcome and then wish for it. I recognize the pattern, but I don’t understand it. It’s as though my mind is running simulations and can’t help but prefer the most dramatic option—as though, in that eventuality, I could enjoy it from the outside.”
Elisa Gabbert, The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

“As the French cultural theorist Paul Virilio famously said, “The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.”
Elisa Gabbert, The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

“These seem to be real questions we're wrestling with - where do I focus my anxiety so that I can feel like a good citizen in an anxious society? We believe we need to worry about the right problems, even if we can't solve them.”
Elisa Gabbert, The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

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