{"product_id":"9780896729988","title":"Lena: Poems","description":"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, 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.","brand":"Texas Tech University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022935277808,"sku":"9780896729988","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780896729988_p0.jpg?v=1763859117","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780896729988","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}