Conversation with Elisa Gabbert
#Scurf197: The poet-essayist on rereading, her writing practice and the joys of writerly companionship
For this edition of Conversations I speak with one of my favourite essayists Elisa Gabbert. Gabbert is the author of seven collections of poetry, essays, and criticism: Any Person Is the Only Self (FSG, 2024); Normal Distance (Soft Skull, 2022); The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays (FSG, 2020); The Word Pretty (Black Ocean, 2018); L’Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems (Black Ocean, 2016); The Self Unstable (Black Ocean, 2013); and The French Exit (Birds LLC, 2010). Any Person Is the Only Self, The Unreality of Memory and The Word Pretty were each named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She writes the “On Poetry” column for the New York Times, and her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Believer, the New York Review of Books, A Public Space, The Yale Review, and many other venues.
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