{"product_id":"grand-tour-9780374611378","title":"Grand Tour","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 placeCyprus, Puerto Rico, Poland, Ohioall 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525049000279,"sku":"9780374611378","price":19.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780374611378.jpg?v=1731859042","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/grand-tour-9780374611378","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}