Lena - Poems (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry
Release date:	May 2022
Authors:	Cassie Pruyn • Rachel Mennies
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-1-68283-149-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-68283-149-3
Barcode:	9781682831496

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