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Grand Tour: Poems

Grand Tour: Poems

Gonzalez, Elisa

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0374613990
ISBN13: 9780374613990
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Sep 17 2024
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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.

Gonzalez's poems draw us nearer to our own aliveness, its fragility and sustaining questions. Her volcanic energy emerges from such great depth that when it breaks to the surface, it breaks blazing.

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