Lena: Poems

by Cassie Pruyn

Book Overview

Cassie Pruyn's Lena asks new questions: why we love, why we grieve. We've read elegies before, but not like this. A lush and unsparing first book, Lena asks readers to understand love--crucially, a first love, an erotic love--in the 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896729982
• ISBN13: 9780896729988
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.2"