Author
Elisa Gonzalez
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
September 2023
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Author
Elisa Gonzalez
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
September 2023
£21.84
Free UK Delivery
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Grand Tour: Poems
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Elisa Gonzalez's thrilling debut makes one "feel as if poems have never before been written" (Louise Glück).
Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an event: she writes of a whole life, to transcendent effect. By the end, we feel we have been witness to a poet remaking herself.
Gonzalez's poetry depicts the fullness of living. There are the small moments: "white wine greening in a glass," trumpet blossoms "panicking across the garden." Some poems adopt the oracular quality of a parable but invariably refuse a clear moral. The poet moves through elegy, romantic and sexual encounters, family history, and place--Cyprus, Puerto Rico, Poland, Ohio--all constellated in "a chaos of faraway." The collection is held together less by answers than by a persistent question: How doe you reconcile a hatred for the world's pain with a love for that same world, which is indivisible from its worst aspects? Gonzalez's poems draw us nearer to our own aliveness, its fragility and sustaining questions. "Since I do love the world," she says, she keeps writing, inviting us to accompany her as she searches.
Author
Elisa Gonzalez
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
September 2023
Weight
250g
Dimensions
142 x 218 x 15 mm
ISBN
9780374611378
ISBN-10
0374611378
Eden Code
6161325
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Author/Creator: Elisa Gonzalez
ISBN: 9780374611378
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: September 2023
Weight: 250g
Dimensions: 142 x 218 x 15 mm
Eden Code: 6161325