Michael talks with Elisa Gabbert about writing time, her poetry column for NYT, reading and writing about classics, an ongoing interest in language and thinking, life before her first book, tricking yourself into finding a voice or style or mode, her previous books, her new poetry collection NORMAL DISTANCE, mixing the abstract and the concrete, creating poems from previous notes and tweets, writing essay vs. writing poetry, lineating a poem (or not), making containers and forms, and more.
Michael talks with Elisa Gabbert about writing time, her poetry column for NYT, reading and writing about classics, an ongoing interest in language and thinking, life before her first book, tricking yourself into finding a voice or style or mode, her previous books, her new poetry collection NORMAL DISTANCE, mixing the abstract and the concrete, creating poems from previous notes and tweets, writing essay vs. writing poetry, lineating a poem (or not), making containers and forms, and more.
Elisa Gabbert is the author of six books of poetry, essays, and criticism, including The Self Unstable, The Unreality of Memory, and most recently, the poetry collection Normal Distance, which is out today from Soft Skull Press. She writes the On Poetry column for the New York Times, and her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Believer, and many other venues.
Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.