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L' Heure Bleue

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L'Heure Bleue by Elisa Gabbert explores the inner world of Judy, a character from Wallace Shawn's play The Designated Mourner. Through a series of poems, Gabbert imaginatively reconstructs Judy's back story and emotional landscape beyond the play’s narrative, delving into themes of memory, identity, desire, surveillance, and fear amidst political upheaval and personal dissolution.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary poetry, character studies, and those who appreciate intricately layered explorations of identity within the context of political and personal unrest.

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Elisa Gabbert's L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems, goes inside the mind of Judy, one of three characters in Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, a play about the dissolution of a marriage in the midst of political revolution.

In these poems, Gabbert imagines a back story and an emotional life for Judy beyond and outside the play. Written in a voice that is at once intellectual and unselfconscious, these poems create a character study of a many-layered woman reflected in solitude, while engaging with larger questions of memory, identity, desire, surveillance, and fear.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781939568175

Publisher: Black Ocean

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 November 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Black Ocean

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 190.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 96

About the Author

Elisa Gabbert is the author of five collections of poetry, essays, and criticism: The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays, forthcoming in August 2020 from FSG Originals (available for preorder now) and Atlantic UK; The Word Pretty (Black Ocean, 2018); L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems (Black Ocean, 2016); The Self Unstable (Black Ocean, 2013); and The French Exit (Birds LLC, 2010). The Word Pretty was a New York Times Editors' Pick, and The Self Unstable was chosen by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2013. She writes a regular poetry column for the New York Times, and her work has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine and Book Review, the New York Review of Books, the Guardian Long Read, the London Review of Books, A Public Space, the Paris Review Daily, American Poetry Review, and many other venues.

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