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Hace 6 días · “Any Person Is the Only Self,” the poet and critic Elisa Gabbert’s third collection of nonfiction, opens with an essay that should be, but isn’t quite, a mission statement.
Hace 2 días · June 12, 2024. I’ve been reading Elisa Gabbert’s essays and poems and criticism for years, but I only met her in person this past February at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Kansas City when I was on a panel with her partner, the writer John Cotter, on the topic of writing about your significant other in your ...
30 de may. de 2024 · Elisa Gabbert’s essays in “Any Person Is the Only Self” are brimming with pleasure and curiosity about a life with books. Review by Becca Rothfeld.
Hace 3 días · Gabbert is a master of mood, not polemic, and accordingly, her writing is not didactic; her essays revolve around images and recollections rather than arguments ... Both funny and serious, a winning melee of high and low cultural references. When Any Person Is the Only Self embraces the random, it’s terrific. When Gabbert neatens or narrows ...
Hace 3 días · In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside books of all dog-eared and destroyed, cherished and discarded, classic and clichėd, familiar and profoundly new.
23 de may. de 2024 · I’ll leave you with a few examples of reframing our self-criticism: Self-criticism: I am a failure. I feel like I can’t do anything right. Self-compassion: Everyone fails sometimes. What can I learn from this and improve next time? Self-criticism: I am not good enough. What is the point of trying?
23 de may. de 2024 · Self-criticizing involves internalizing and applying externally received standards or expectations to one’s thoughts, actions, or accomplishments, and then finding fault or inadequacy based on these criteria.
