{"title":"Elisa Gabbert","description":"\u003cp\u003eElisa Gabbert's work probes the delicate edges of memory and perception, weaving poetic reflections with sharp cultural insight. Readers can expect a blend of contemplative essays and lyrical explorations that challenge conventional notions of reality and self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer writing invites thoughtful engagement with the nuances of human experience, often navigating themes of loss, language, and the fleeting nature of consciousness. Perfect for those drawn to introspective and artistically nuanced literature within the realms of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-unreality-of-memory-by-elisa-gabbert-9781838950644","title":"The Unreality of Memory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' - Andrew Sean Greer, author of \u003ci\u003eLess\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Masterly... Her essays have a clarity and prescience that imply a sort of distant, retrospective view, like postcards sent from the near future' - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase \"Did you see?\" The feeling that we're living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePoet and essayist Elisa Gabbert's \u003ci\u003eThe Unreality of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e consists of a series of lyrical and deeply researched meditations on what our culture of catastrophe has done to public discourse and our own inner lives. In these tender and prophetic essays, she focuses in on our daily preoccupation and favourite pastime: desperate distraction from disaster by way of a desperate obsession with the disastrous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from public trauma to personal tragedy, from the Titanic and Chernobyl to illness and loss, \u003ci\u003eThe Unreality of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e alternately rips away the façade of our fascination with destruction and gently identifies itself with the age of rubbernecking. A balm, not a burr, Gabbert's essays are a hauntingly perceptive analysis of the anxiety intrinsic in our new, digital ways of being, and also a means of reconciling ourselves to this new world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of those joyful books that send you to your notebook every page or so, desperate not to lose either the thought the author has deftly placed in your mind or the title of a work she has now compelled you to read.' - \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46522707345644,"sku":"9781838950644","price":26.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20491263482842.jpg?v=1749042409"},{"product_id":"l-heure-bleue-by-elisa-gabbert-9781939568175","title":"L' Heure Bleue","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElisa Gabbert's \u003cem\u003eL'Heure Bleue\u003c\/em\u003e, or the Judy Poems, goes inside the mind of Judy, one of three characters in Wallace Shawn's \u003cem\u003eThe Designated Mourner\u003c\/em\u003e, a play about the dissolution of a marriage in the midst of political revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these poems, Gabbert imagines a back story and an emotional life for Judy beyond and outside the play. Written in a voice that is at once intellectual and unselfconscious, these poems create a character study of a many-layered woman reflected in solitude, while engaging with larger questions of memory, identity, desire, surveillance, and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47606356312300,"sku":"9781939568175","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8c401d49e3529cb1d117b6317d419c29.jpg?v=1778192159"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/elisa-gabbert.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}