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Eye level : poems /

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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xie, Jenny (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Graywolf Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Identity (Psychology) > Poetry.
Travel > Poetry.
American poetry > 21st century.
American poetry > Asian American authors > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.