{"product_id":"lena-2","title":"Lena","description":"Cassie Pruyn's \u003ci\u003eLena\u003c\/i\u003e asks new questions: why we love, why we grieve. We've read elegies before, but not like this. A lush and unsparing first book, \u003ci\u003eLena\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Texas A \u0026 M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57259321393496,"sku":"9781682831496","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lena-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}