Overview
Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera
For years now, Iāve 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.
Iāve gotten to where I am by dint of my poor eyesight,
my overreactive motion sickness.
9 p.m., Hanoiās Old Quarter: duck porridge and plum wine.
Voices outside the door come to a soft boil.
āfrom āPhnom Penh Diptych: Dry Seasonā
Jenny Xieās 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 hereācolors, smells, tastes, and changing landscapesābring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes, āMe? Iām just here in my travelerās clothes, trying on each passing town for size.ā 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 perceptionāboth to the tangible world and to āall that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach.ā
This book title, Eye Level (Poems), ISBN: 9781555978020, by Jenny Xie, published by Graywolf Press (April 3, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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