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Eye Level: Poems

Jenny Xie
4.14/5 (1449 ratings)
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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.”
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
82 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Edition:
1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1555978029
ISBN13:
9781555978020
kindle Asin:
B07B8VFX4J

Eye Level: Poems

Jenny Xie
4.14/5 (1449 ratings)
Read Download
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.”
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
82 pages
Publication:
2018
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Edition:
1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1555978029
ISBN13:
9781555978020
kindle Asin:
B07B8VFX4J

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