{"product_id":"9781802067057-grand-tour","title":"Grand Tour","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A mesmerizing book, deeply original, one of the most profound reading experiences I’ve had in years … one feels most urgently her extraordinary force, her dignity, her savage hunger, her sweetness. These poems make me feel as if poems have never before been written’ Louise Glück\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrand Tour\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGonzalez'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41540105502817,"sku":"9781802067057","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32423403.jpg?v=1737274818","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781802067057-grand-tour","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}