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"Terror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily."* A literary guide to life in the pre-apocalypse, The Unreality of Memory collects profound and prophetic essays on the Internet ages media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the worlds ills. We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase Did you see? The feeling that were living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gottenand each new catastrophe distracts us from the last. The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. In this new collection, acclaimed poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert explores our obsessions with disasters past and future, from the sinking of the Titanic to Chernobyl, from witch hunts to the plague. These deeply researched, prophetic meditations question how the world will endif indeed it willand why we cant stop fantasizing about it. Can we avoid repeating history? Can we understand o

Author

Gabbert, Elisa, author

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374720339

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities