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The Self Unstable

Elisa Gabbert

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."

Book Details

  • Publisher: Black Ocean
  • Publish Date: Nov 12nd, 2013
  • Pages: 96
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.50in - 5.50in - 0.30in - 0.20lb
  • EAN: 9780984475292
  • Categories: GeneralFeminism & Feminist TheoryWomen Authors

About the Author

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.