{"id":946,"date":"2022-10-17T20:36:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T00:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/?post_type=podcast&p=946"},"modified":"2022-10-18T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:26:12","slug":"elisa-gabbert-the-beautiful-strangeness-of-boredom-fact","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/podcast\/elisa-gabbert-the-beautiful-strangeness-of-boredom-fact","title":{"rendered":"Elisa Gabbert, The Beautiful Strangeness of Boredom & Fact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Talking the poet Elisa Gabbert about her amazing new book<\/a> Normal Distance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ELISA GABBERT<\/strong>, a poet, critic, and essayist, is the author most recently of The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays<\/em> and The Word Pretty<\/em>. She writes a regular poetry column for The New York Times<\/em>, and her work has appeared in Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em>, The New York Review of Books<\/em>, A Public Space<\/em>, and elsewhere. Her next collection of essays, Any Person Is the Only Self<\/em>, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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A collection of funny and thought-provoking poems inspired by surprising facts that will appeal to poetry lovers and poetry haters alike, from the author of the essay collection The Unreality of Memory<\/em>, \u201ca work of sheer brilliance, beauty, and bravery\u201d (Andrew Sean Greer)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known to be both \u201ccasually brilliant\u201d (Sandra Newman) and a \u201cruthless self-examiner\u201d (Sarah Manguso), acclaimed writer Elisa Gabbert brings her \u201cquesting, restless intelligence\u201d (Kirkus Reviews<\/em>) to a new collection of poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cgladly,\u201d exactly? How bored are dogs? Which is more frightening, nothing or empty space? Was Wittgenstein sexy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With her sharp observations building to extremely quotable one-liners, the poems in this collection are earwormy, ultra contemporary, essayistic, aphoristic, and philosophical\u2014invitations to eavesdrop on a mind paying attention to itself. Normal Distance<\/em> is a book about thinking and feeling, meaning and experience, trees and the weather, and the boredom and pain of living through time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talking the poet Elisa Gabbert about her amazing new book Normal Distance. A collection of funny and thought-provoking poems inspired by surprising facts that will appeal to poetry lovers and poetry haters alike, from the author of the essay collection The Unreality of Memory, \u201ca work of sheer brilliance, beauty, and bravery\u201d (Andrew Sean Greer) Known […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":947,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/ruthstonepodcast.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/Elisa+Gabbart+Edited.m4a","cover_image":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ode-and-psyche-podcast-logo-square-favicon.png","cover_image_id":"772","duration":"","filesize":"107.59M","date_recorded":"2022-10-17 20:36:43","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"112812241"},"tags":[],"series":[58,59],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Elisa-Gabbart.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ode-and-psyche-podcast-logo-square-favicon.png?fit=512%2C512&ssl=1","download_link":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/podcast-download\/946\/elisa-gabbert-the-beautiful-strangeness-of-boredom-fact.m4a","player_link":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/podcast-player\/946\/elisa-gabbert-the-beautiful-strangeness-of-boredom-fact.m4a","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-ruth-stone-foundation-podcast\/id1432185166?mt=2","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0LnJ1dGhzdG9uZWhvdXNlLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7dvQOPyfUAPicR1BhonwbR","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/feed\/podcast\/ode-psyche-podcast","embedCode":"

Elisa Gabbert, The Beautiful Strangeness of Boredom & Fact<\/a><\/blockquote>