The Breakup by Mag Gabbert

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The Breakup by Mag Gabbert
ISBN-13: 978-1943899-20-3
Paperback, 36 pages
First Edition, 2024
$9.00 + t/s/h

Mag Gabbert's second chapbook offers her characteristic alloy of playfulness and emotional resonance while exploring its own unique formal approach to erasure. The Breakup consists of a single long poem separated into disconnected sections, each of which seeks to uncover the surreal-and sometimes even magical-layers of hidden narrative beneath life's most mundane and isolating moments. Selected by Kaveh Akbar as the winner of the 2022 Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Award, this collection excavates wings from drawings, ether from togetherness, and rain from the speaker's brain.

Mag Gabbert is also the author of Sex Depression Animals, which was selected by Kathy Fagan as the winner of the 2021 Charles B. Wheeler Prize in Poetry, and the chapbook Minml Poems (Cooper Dillon Books, 2020). She is the recipient of a Discovery Award from 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, and Poetry at Round Top. Mag’s work can also be found in The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review Daily, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Mag has an MFA from UC Riverside and a PhD from Texas Tech. She is the Poet Laureate of Dallas, Texas and teaches at Southern Methodist University.