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Elisa Gabbert on Karen Green’s Bough Down
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Elisa Gabbert on Karen Green’s Bough Down

  • Posted on November 22, 2013February 27, 2014
  • by Elisa

Bough Down, Karen Green. Siglio, 2013. by Elisa Gabbert In comedy, a “callback” is a joke that makes reference to an earlier joke, to “build audience rapport.” In Bough Down, a…

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Elisa Gabbert, The Poneme: Farrah Field’s Dioramas
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Elisa Gabbert, The Poneme: Farrah Field’s Dioramas

  • Posted on August 2, 2013September 26, 2013
  • by Elisa

There are states of heightened awareness in which the smallest stimulus can set you off—when nervous or frightened, when being tickled, during laughing fits. Farrah Field’s poems create worlds this…

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The Poneme: The Godlike Thought
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The Poneme: The Godlike Thought

  • Posted on April 17, 2013September 9, 2013
  • by Elisa

When on occasion I teach poetry, one of the main things I try to instill in my students is, to quote Spicer, “Poet, be like God.” To go from trying…

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The Poneme: Wrong Words
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The Poneme: Wrong Words

  • Posted on February 14, 2013September 4, 2013
  • by Elisa

Samuel Taylor Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in their best order,” which I have long misremembered as “the right words in the right order,” one of those double-positives…

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The Poneme: Elliptical Machines

  • Posted on November 23, 2012February 14, 2013
  • by Elisa

Darcie Dennigan runs a reading series in Providence, and a couple of years ago I bumped into my old friend Leeore on the street outside the bar that hosts the…

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Introducing: The Poneme, or the Unit of Poetry
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Introducing: The Poneme, or the Unit of Poetry

  • Posted on September 21, 2012November 23, 2012
  • by Elisa

What is the unit of poetry? If the basic unit of prose is the sentence, the analog for poetry would seem to be the line. Sentences constitute paragraphs, and lines…

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