Gabbert, Elisa: L'Heure Bleue, or The Judy Poems

L'Heure Bleue, or The Judy Poems by Elisa Gabbert (Black Ocean, paperback) Publication Date: October 1, 2016 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Drama. 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.