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Lena - Poems (Paperback)
Cassie Pruyn, Rachel Mennies
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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.
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