01869cam a2200313 i 4500 975948530 TxAuBib 20231004120000.0 230918s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780374611378 HRD 26.00 0374611378 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib rda eng eng Gonzalez, Elisa, 1989- Grand tour [BOOK] : poems / Elisa Gonzalez. Grand Tour. First edition. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2023] 91 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Grand Tour, 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. Gonzalez’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? -Provided by publisher. 20231004. Grief Poetry. Death Poetry. Poetry.