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Eye level : poems / Jenny Xie.
Van Pelt Library PS3624.I4 E94 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Xie, Jenny, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Identity (Psychology)--Poetry.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Travel--Poetry.
- Travel.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--Asian American authors--21st century.
- American poetry--Asian American authors.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 79 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "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.""--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Unspoiled Fictions 5
- Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season 6
- Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season 13
- Corfu 19
- Displacement 20
- Fortified 21
- Epistle 22
- Old Wives' Tales on Which I Was Fed 25
- Solitude Study 26
- Zuihitsu 27
- Alike, Yet Not Quite 30
- Lunar New Year, 1988 31
- Metamorphosis 34
- Naturalization 35
- Lineage 36
- Chinatown Diptych 37
- Origin Story 41
- Captivity 42
- Private Property 43
- Invisible Relations 44
- Bildungsroman 45
- Visual Orders 46
- Borderless 50
- No Animal 51
- Melancholia 52
- Inwardly 53
- Square Cells 54
- Tending 55
- Exit, Eve 60
- Hardwired 63
- The Hunt 64
- Zazen 65
- To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement 66
- Margins 67
- Déjà Vu 69
- Letters to Du Fu 70
- Exile 71
- A Slow Way 72
- Ongoing 73
- Long Nights 74.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 79).
- Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, 2017.
- ISBN:
- 9781555978020
- 1555978029
- OCLC:
- 1021230553
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