
Lena
Poems
Cassie Pruyn(Author)
Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2017
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-0-89672-998-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Texas
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Halftones
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
218 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89672-998-8 (9780896729988)
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Person
Cassie Pruyn is Advanced Seminar Professor and Head of the Writing Center at Bard Early College in New Orleans and author of the forthcoming Bayou St John: A Brief History.