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POETRY: Six by Elisa Gabbert

POETRY: Six by Elisa Gabbert

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About the Author

Elisa Gabbert, a poet and essayist, is the author of The Word Pretty; L’Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems; The Self Unstable; and The French Exit. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, the Guardian and elsewhere.

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