Jenny Xie

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Eye Level: PoemsPaperback, 3 April 2018

Eye Level: Poems
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Print Length
80 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Date Published
3 Apr 2018
ISBN-10
1555978029
ISBN-13
9781555978020

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera
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For years now, I've been using the wrong palette.
Each year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date.*

Planes and buses, guesthouse to guesthouse.

I've gotten to where I am by dint of my poor eyesight,
my overreactive motion sickness.

9 p.m., Hanoi's Old Quarter: duck porridge and plum wine.

Voices outside the door come to a soft boil.

--from "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season"

Jenny Xie's award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here--colors, smells, tastes, and changing landscapes--bring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes, "Me? I'm just here in my traveler's clothes, trying on each passing town for size." Her taut, elusive poems exult in a life simultaneously crowded and quiet, caught in between things and places, and never quite entirely at home. Xie is a poet of extraordinary perception--both to the tangible world and to "all that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach."

Product Details

Author:
Jenny Xie
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
3 April 2018
Dimensions:
22.61 x 16.26 x 0.76 cm
ISBN-10:
1555978029
ISBN-13:
9781555978020
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
80
Publisher:
Weight:
158.76 gm

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