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Elisa Gabbert's L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems, goes inside the mind of Judy, one of three characters in Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, a play about the dissolution of a marriage in the midst of political revolution. In 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.

Book Details

ISBN:
9781939568175
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Elisa Gabbert
Published Date:
2016-10-01
Language:
English

About Elisa Gabbert

Elisa Gabbert writes the On Poetry column for The New York Times. Born in El Paso, Texas, she earned a BA in linguistics from Rice University and an MFA from Emerson College. She is the author of seven books, including The Self Unstable (Black Ocean, 2013), named one of The New Yorker's best books of 2013; The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020); Normal Distance (Soft Skull, 2022); and Any Person Is the Only Self (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024). Her work has also appeared in poetry and essay forms across multiple genres.

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