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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Black Ocean
Published: 10/01/2016
ISBN: 9781939568175
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/05/2016