The Word Pretty Contributor(s): Gabbert, Elisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1939568269 ISBN-13: 9781939568267 Publisher: Black Ocean
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: November 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Literary Collections | Essays - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: 814.6 |
LCCN: 2018958608 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.2" W x 6.9" L (0.35 lbs) 158 pages |
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Memoir. Cultural Criticism. In THE WORD PRETTY Elisa Gabbert brings together humor and observational intelligence to create a roving and curious series of lyrical essays on writing, reading, and living. Combining elements of criticism, meditation, and personal essay, this book reveals a poet's attention turned to subjects from translation to aphorism, from unreliable memory to beauty and the male gaze. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gabbert, Elisa: - Elisa Gabbert is the author of 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). Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, A Public Space, Boston Review, Paris Review Daily, Guernica, Harvard Review, and Threepenny Review, among other publications. She lives in Denver. |
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