Eye Level Poems by Jenny Xie
Brand: Graywolf Press
Product Description
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 For years now Ive 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. Ive gotten to where I am by dint of my poor eyesight my overreactive motion sickness. 9 p.m. Hanois Old Quarter duck porridge and plum wine. Voices outside the door come to a soft boil. from Phnom Penh Diptych Dry Season Jenny Xies awardwinning 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 herecolors smells tastes and changing landscapesbring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes Me Im just here in my travelers 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 perceptionboth to the tangible world and to all that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach. show more
Condition : New
Author : Jenny Xie
Weight : 279
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Language : English
EAN : 9781555978020
ISBN10 : 1555978029
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20170420
Place of Publication : New York
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 163 X 226 X 8mm