Lena: Poems

di Cassie Pruyn (Autore)

Rachel Mennies (Autore)

Texas Tech Press,U.S., 2022

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.

• Autore: Cassie Pruyn, Rachel Mennies
• Editore: Texas Tech Press,U.S.
• Collana: Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 96 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 333 gr.
• EAN: 9781682831496

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