Elisa Gabbert
@egabbert
That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.
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. us.macmillan.com/books/97803746…
My bridge poem. My Hart Crane moment
Once there was a bridge I couldn’t cross. Cusp of summer. Sound of insects carried with me, from Melville’s fields in my-heart-on-the-bridge, their zzzz. ––Elisa Gabbert @egabbert #PoemADay poets.org/poem/bridge
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): thecreativeindependent.com/essays/30-idea…
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
We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/qiSx3j8
RIP to the incandescent Alice Notley. There's innumerable things to say about her and her work, but here's something she said in an interview about Ted Berrigan a couple of years ago, and it seems as fitting a tribute as anything
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
We’re joined by the amazing poet and essayist @egabbert to discuss books we think about all the time. We each share 3 books that are always on our minds and discuss the reasons some works become an important part of who we are. Which ones would you pick? open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p/e…?
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
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."
I wrote about the many forms of reference in poetry, from quotes and doorknocker epigraphs to classic IYKYK allusions nytimes.com/2025/01/16/boo…
"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. buff.ly/3UO4nRr
if you want to watch a 45-minute video of me discussing every book i read this year here it is youtu.be/rvWs4_Xny60
Years have to keep ending so we can get the Gabbert reports:
Good morning! It's time for every book I read in 2024, with commentary elisagabbert.medium.com/every-book-i-r…
Good morning! It's time for every book I read in 2024, with commentary elisagabbert.medium.com/every-book-i-r…
BPL Librarians and staff members are pleased to share their favorite reads of 2024!🏆 📚 This is a genre-inclusive list of standout adult fiction and nonfiction. For the full list: discover.bklynlibrary.org/?booklist=2024… - happy browsing! #librarylife #books #readers