03492cam a2200493 i 4500 19573975 OSt 20250725113918.0 170328s2018 mnu b 000 p eng c 2017938013 9781555978020 (softcover) 1555978029 (softcover) 99976497190 (OCoLC)on1021230553 TOH eng TOH rda POETS GZD YDX BDX CLE NYP UAB EAU TOH OCLCO WLU EYM JTH IAY IPU OBE OCLCF DLC pcc PS3624.I4 A6 2018 Xie, Jenny author 2 Poems. Selections Eye level : poems / Jenny Xie. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018] 79 pages ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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. "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. Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, 2017. 2000-2099 fast Identity (Psychology) Poetry. Travel Poetry. American poetry 21st century. 3 American poetry Asian American authors 21st century. American poetry. fast (OCoLC)fst00807348 American poetry Asian American authors. fast (OCoLC)fst00807354 Identity (Psychology) fast (OCoLC)fst00966892 Travel. fast (OCoLC)fst01155558 Poetry. fast (OCoLC)fst01423828 Poetry. lcgft 7 cbc pccadap 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 2 2 0 0 ddc 0 0 CPL CPL 2025-06-03 2 4 0001 2025-08-12 2025-06-03 10:14:23 2025-06-03 2025-06-03 BK