Elisa Gonzalez Grand Tour: Poems-壮游

这本生动、充满探寻的处女作跨越了国家、语言、恋人、过去与现在、生者与死者之间的边界。通过将对艺术和历史的反思与对日常生活的敏锐观察结合起来，伊莉莎·冈萨雷斯与世界承受深刻痛苦的能力和同样程度的、近乎难以忍受的美丽的能力进行对抗。

书名：Grand Tour: Poems《壮游》

作者：Elisa Gonzalez

简介：Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an 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 “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 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.