{"product_id":"grand-tour-poems","title":"Grand Tour","description":"\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","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49738370744664,"sku":"9781802067057","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781802067057_c91b09b6-c2ee-4a5b-bea5-aee58825f36e.jpg?v=1764656130","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/grand-tour-poems","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}