For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Elisa Gabbert is the author of five collections of poetry, essays, and criticism, most recently The Word Pretty (Black Ocean, 2018) and The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays, out in August from FSG and Atlantic UK.
I. You remember your childhood. Your tow-headed, reddish-tinged mother, who yelled after you all day like a Paraguayan peasant chasing her donkey. And your...