# Grand Tour

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- Authors: [Elisa González-Fernández](https://www.bookquiver.com/elisa-gonzalez-fernandez)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-07-25

## Description

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 do 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.

## Editions

### Grand Tour

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-653-1
- Published: 2024-07-25
- Language: en_GB

### Grand Tour

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-705-7
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2024-07-25
- Language: en_GB