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Cassie Pruyn's Lena asks new questions: why we love, why we grieve.
We'veread elegies before, but not like this. A lush and unsparing first book, Lenaasks readers to understand love-crucially, a first love, an erotic love-inthe 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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:96 pages, Halftones
- Publisher:Texas Tech Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:30/04/2017
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- ISBN:9780896729988
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:96 pages, Halftones
- Publisher:Texas Tech Press,U.S.
- Publication Date:30/04/2017
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- ISBN:9780896729988
