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The word pretty / Elisa Gabbert.
Van Pelt Library PS3607.A227 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gabbert, Elisa, author.
- Series:
- Black Ocean: Undercurrents.
- Black Ocean: Undercurrents
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Books and reading.
- Essays.
- Local Subjects:
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Books and reading.
- Essays.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Black Ocean, [2018]
- Summary:
- In The Word 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781939568267
- 1939568269
- OCLC:
- 1050607380
- Publisher Number:
- 99983505497
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