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.
- ISBN10 193956817X
- ISBN13 9781939568175
- Publish Date 17 November 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Black Ocean
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English