{"product_id":"grand-tour-poems","title":"Grand Tour: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElisa Gonzalez's thrilling debut makes one \"feel as if poems have never before been written\" (Louise Glück). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\r","brand":"Elisa Gonzalez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44440359829740,"sku":"9780374611378","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44440359862508,"sku":"9780374613990","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780374611378.jpg?v=1708831374","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/grand-tour-poems","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}