· The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. In this new collection, acclaimed poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert explores our obsessions with disasters past and future, from the sinking of the Titanic to Chernobyl, from witch hunts to the plague. These deeply researched, prophetic meditations ISBN · The Unreality of Memory Other Essays Elisa Gabbert FSG Originals | Aug. In the epilogue of her new book, The Unreality of Memory Other Essays, Elisa Gabbert says, “For a while I told people, facetiously, I suppose, that I was writing a book about the end of the world I wonder if the way the world gets worse will barely outpace the rate at which we get used to it.”. · AND OTHER ESSAYS. by Elisa Gabbert ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 11, In her second collection of nonfiction, poet Gabbert moves fluidly from disaster to dislocation to political upheaval, offering a kind of literary road map to our tumultuous era. In the epilogue the author writes, “it feels like a suspended emergency—like the specious present has been extended in both www.doorway.ru: Elisa Gabbert.
The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. In this new collection, acclaimed poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert explores our obsessions with disasters past and future, from the sinking of the Titanic to Chernobyl, from witch hunts to the plague. About Elisa Gabbert. Elisa Gabbert is the author of five collections of poetry, essays, and criticism: The Unreality of Memory Other Essays (out in August from FSG Originals), The Word Pretty (Black Ocean, ), L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems (Black Ocean, ), The Self Unstable (Black Ocean, ), and The French Exit (Birds LLC, ). The Word Pretty was a New York Times. When Elisa Gabbert began writing The Unreality of Memory in , she said she was writing about the end of the world. Disasters, more specifically. Her mother corrected her once, though, saying, "Isn't it more about how we think about disasters?" which Gabbert says is a loose summation of what her second essay collection is about.
Elisa Gabbert is the author of five collections of poetry, essays, and criticism: The Unreality of Memory Other Essays (out in August from FSG Originals), The Word Pretty (Black Ocean, ), L’Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems (Black Ocean, ), The Self Unstable (Black Ocean, ), and The French Exit (Birds LLC, ). The Word Pretty was a New York Times Editors’ Pick, and The Self Unstable was chosen by the New Yorker as one of the best books of AND OTHER ESSAYS. by Elisa Gabbert ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 11, In her second collection of nonfiction, poet Gabbert moves fluidly from disaster to dislocation to political upheaval, offering a kind of literary road map to our tumultuous era. In the epilogue the author writes, “it feels like a suspended emergency—like the specious present has been extended in both directions. The Unreality of Memory is a phenomenal essay collection, perhaps the best one I’ve read. Startlingly clear-eyed and so acutely perceptive, Gabbert’s essays hold up a mirror for our collective humanity to reflect on some of the most pertinent questions that plague our age of digital anxiety.
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