| The Self Unstable Contributor(s): Gabbert, Elisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 098447529X ISBN-13: 9780984475292 Publisher: Black Ocean OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2013038415 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.5" W x 7.5" (0.20 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Literary Nonfiction. Elisa Gabbert's THE SELF UNSTABLE combines elements of memoir, philosophy, and aphorism to explore and trouble our ideas of the self, memory, happiness, aesthetics, love, and sex. With a sense of humor and an ability to find glimmers of the absurd in the profound, she uses the lyric essay like a koan to provoke the reader's reflection--unsettling the role of truth and interrogating the I in both literary and daily life: The future isn't anywhere, so we can never get there. We can only disappear. Gabbert strikes a perfect balance between heart and head, between cleverness and earnestness, between language that demonstrates its own fallibility and language that is surprisingly, perfectly precise.--Make Magazine ... smart and philosophically dexterous, capable of showing the self to be a fetish-object of its own and also a refractive subject of Lacanian devotion, as a mirror which doesn't so much distort as endlessly reveal, ' like the panopticon eye of a camera.--The Rumpus ... the dispassion about the self allows the writer to enact a number of equally lovely sleights of hand . . . Even while the author is drawn to image and reason, she is also in love with the vanishing point, where all perspective is ecstatically compressed into a single node.--Gently Read Literature |
Contributor Bio(s): Gabbert, Elisa: - Elisa Gabbert is the author of THE SELF UNSTABLE (Black Ocean, 2013), THE FRENCH EXIT (Birds, LLC, 2010) and the chapbooks Thanks for Sending the Engine (Kitchen Press, 2207) and, with Kathleen Rooney, That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths, 2008), a collaborative collection. |