Elisa Gabbert
@egabbert
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That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.
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Joined May 2009
My next book has a cover and this is it! Any Person Is the Only Self = five years of writing about writing and reading and loneliness and happiness. Coming June 11. I hope you'll consider pre-ordering it.
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My bridge poem. My Hart Crane moment.
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My lecture "30 Ideas About Writing Nonfiction" is up at @thecreativeindp today. Includes thoughts about structure, scale, tone, authority, titles, surprise, and what the word "interesting" means (it's one of my favorite words):
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The poet, essayist, and critic Elisa Gabbert offers 30 ideas around making your nonfiction interesting.
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Just pick any subject then say what you want to, pick any subject that allows you to say what you want to.
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I read two or three sentences by Claudio Magris recently and instantly loved him. This feels like writing for writing’s sake, it has a subject because one needs one, of course, but it could just as well have been about something else
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The thing I want and love in art is life force -- experience is very nice too, but if you don't have that yet (too young) it's life force.
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RT @parisreview: We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art o….
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“Writing is not therapy. That’s the last thing it is. I still have my grief.”
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RT @jeremylybarger: RIP to the incandescent Alice Notley. There's innumerable things to say about her and her work, but here's something sh….
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Sometimes, when I can’t write the line I want to write, I just describe the line I want to write instead, a formal substitute, which often makes a better, more mysterious line.
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RT @bibliopaul: We’re joined by the amazing poet and essayist @egabbert to discuss books we think about all the time. We each share 3 books….
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Book club, but I just read whatever I want whenever I want and then make people talk to me about it. We can have drinks too.
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Plath quoted that bit in her own diaries: "And she works off her depression over rejections . by cleaning out the kitchen. And cooks haddock and sausage. Bless her. I feel my life linked to her somehow".
Virginia Woolf took her own life on March 28, 1941. in addition to her remarkable prose fiction Woolf is one of the greatest diarists of all time. her last diary entry:."Haddock & sausage meat: one gains a certain hold on haddock and sausage by writing them down.".
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I wrote about the many forms of reference in poetry, from quotes and doorknocker epigraphs to classic IYKYK allusions
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Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.
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"I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature." Ugh, I just love her----maybe the most humorless writer I love.
“I’ve seen academic life destroy the best writers of my generation.”. We’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with Susan Sontag from the archive.
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RT @bartlebytaco: if you want to watch a 45-minute video of me discussing every book i read this year here it is
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Good morning! It's time for every book I read in 2024, with commentary
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I started keeping these notes on my reading in 2015. That means this is my tenth list — ten years is a long time to do anything! In…
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RT @BKLYNlibrary: BPL Librarians and staff members are pleased to share their favorite reads of 2024!🏆 📚 This is a genre-inclusive list of….
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