Bibliograph

Normal distance, poems, Elisa Gabbert

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Normal distance, poems, Elisa Gabbert

Language

eng

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Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Normal distance

Responsibility statement

Elisa Gabbert

Sub title

poems

Summary

"By turns funny and chilling, these poems collect strange facts, interrogate language, and ask unanswerable questions that offer the pleasure of discovery on nearly every page: How does one suffer "gladly," exactly? How bored are dogs? Which is more frightening, nothing or empty space? Was Wittgenstein sexy? With her sharp observations building to extremely quotable one-liners, the poems in this collection have an aphoristic, ear-wormy quality to them that's both ultra contemporary and offers a reading experience that is at once essayistic, aphoristic, and philosophical. Normal Distance is a book about thinking and feeling, meaning and experience, trees and the weather, and the boredom and pain of living through time"--, Provided by publisher

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