The Self Unstable

Elisa Gabberts The Self Unstable combines elements of memoir, philosophy, and aphorism to explore and trouble our ideas of the self, memory, happiness, aesthetics, love, and sex. With a sense of humor and an ability to find glimmers of the absurd in the profound, she uses the lyric essay like a koan to provoke the readers reflectionunsettling the role of truth and interrogating the I in both literary and daily life: The future isnt anywhere, so we can never get there. We can only disappear.