Cassie Pruyn's Lena asks new questions: why we love, why we grieve. We've read elegies before, but not like this. A lush and unsparing first book, Lena asks readers to understand love--crucially, a first love, an erotic love-in the context not of a love lost but instead of an identity gained: we must consider not only "was she worth it?," but also "who has she made me?" Pruyn lets us feel what lovers feel--the magnetism, the physicality, the tenderness, the rage, the wondering--with language both musical and visceral. In these poems, the landscape is a character in itself; the past is as tangible as the present. Pruyn takes us to the "Lost Love Lounge," we ride in a "car / red as a dragon," and we observe the beloved "stick herself in the belly with a needle" in the way "she used to attach her cufflinks." This is love and grief raised to the highest power; it is a debut not to be missed.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781682831496
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-68283-149-6
- Verlag: Texas Tech University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 04.05.2022
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2022
- Serie: Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 145 g
- Seiten: 96
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 5 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt