The word pretty / Elisa Gabbert.

Main entry:

Gabbert, Elisa, author.

Title & Author:

The word pretty / Elisa Gabbert.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Boston, MA : Black Ocean, [2018]
©2018

Description:

1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations

Series:

Black Ocean: Undercurrents

Notes:
Personal data -- Variations on crying -- Dream logic -- The inelegant translation -- On the pleasures of front matter -- Seeing things -- Impossible time -- The art of the paragraph -- Much hinges -- What poetry is -- Aphorisms are essays -- The point of tangency -- Why read novels? -- The self-destruct button -- Title TK -- Writing that sounds like writing -- Picture yourself happy -- Ways of looking -- How to pretty on TV -- Meditation on the word pretty -- Bedroom in Alcatraz -- Time, money, happiness.

Summary:

In The World 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--back cover.

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ISBN:

9781939568298 (electronic bk.)
1939568293 (electronic bk.)
1939568269
9781939568267

Subject:

American essays.
Essais américains.

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
Essays
Essais.

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