Eye level : poems / Jenny Xie.
2018
811.6 X6e 2018
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Title
Eye level : poems / Jenny Xie.
Author
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
ISBN
9781555978020 (paperback)
1555978029 (paperback)
1555978029 (paperback)
Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
79 pages ; 23 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
99976497190
Call Number
811.6 X6e 2018
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1021230553
(OCoLC)1021230553
(OCoLC)1021230553
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 79).
Formatted Contents Note
Rootless
Unspoiled fictions
Phnom Penh Diptych : wet season
Phnom Penh Diptych : dry season
Corfu
Displacement
Fortified
Epistle
Old wives' tales on which I was fed
Solitude study
Zuihitsu
Alike, yet not quite
Lunar New Year, 1988
Metamorphosis
Naturalization
Lineage
Chinatown Diptych
Origin story
Captivity
Private property
Invisible relations
Bildungsroman
Visual orders
Borderless
No animal
Melancholia
Inwardly
Square cells
Tending
Exit, Eve
Hardwired
The hunt
Zazen
To be a good Buddhist is ensnarement
Margins
Déjà vu
Letters to Du Fu
Exile
A slow way
Ongoing
Long nights
Notes.
Unspoiled fictions
Phnom Penh Diptych : wet season
Phnom Penh Diptych : dry season
Corfu
Displacement
Fortified
Epistle
Old wives' tales on which I was fed
Solitude study
Zuihitsu
Alike, yet not quite
Lunar New Year, 1988
Metamorphosis
Naturalization
Lineage
Chinatown Diptych
Origin story
Captivity
Private property
Invisible relations
Bildungsroman
Visual orders
Borderless
No animal
Melancholia
Inwardly
Square cells
Tending
Exit, Eve
Hardwired
The hunt
Zazen
To be a good Buddhist is ensnarement
Margins
Déjà vu
Letters to Du Fu
Exile
A slow way
Ongoing
Long nights
Notes.
Awards
Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, 2017.
National Book Award finalist, 2018.
National Book Award finalist, 2018.
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