The Self Unstable

About Elisa Gabbert

Elisa Gabbert is the author of five collections of poetry essays and criticism: The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays forthcoming in August 2020 from FSG Originals (available for preorder now) and Atlantic UK; The Word Pretty (Black Ocean 2018); LHeure Bleue or the Judy Poems (Black Ocean 2016); The Self Unstable (Black Ocean 2013); and The French Exit (Birds LLC 2010). The Word Pretty was a New York Times Editors Pick and The Self Unstable was chosen by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2013. She writes a regular poetry column for the New York Times and her work has appeared in Harpers The New Yorker the New York Times Magazine and Book Review the New York Review of Books the Guardian Long Read the London Review of Books A Public Space the Paris Review Daily American Poetry Review and many other venues.