Grand Tour - Poems

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Elisa Gonzalez
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781802067057
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-705-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 9 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, Coping with death & bereavement, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Family & relationships, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)