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Typewriter Interview with Elisa Gabbert


On writing, having interests instead of hobbies, and good midlife crisis books

I liked how similar this answer was to Mary Ruefle’s — as much as I try to be a “ curious elder,” the “it’s none of my business what the youth are up to!” mode is becoming more and more appealing to me… This is true for any piece of writing, but poetry seems to foreground those choices, those leaps outside logic or predictability, as if the possibilities of what comes next are more infinite in a poem.” “It’s not just basic petrichor – I think it comes from the creosote.” (She and her husband the writer John Cotter moved to Providence last year after living in Denver.)

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