Switchback's Elizabeth Hildreth Interviews Elisa Gabbert

In April of 2010, Elisa Gabbert was interviewed by Switchback's Elizabeth Hildreth over e-mail about her debut poetry collection The French Exit. They discuss, among other things, why Elisa’s poems are like Zoe Saldana, how to give “robots” extra weight in a poem, how good poetry is like good perfume, how writing a poem is like finding the area of a curve, why, in the case that you find your face crashing through a glass door, you may want to stick out your chin, and why you should not read Wikipedia if you want to have fun at slumber parties.

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_06_016182.php