{"product_id":"eye-level-poems-9781555978020","title":"Eye Level: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years now, I've been using the wrong palette.\u003cbr\u003eEach year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlanes and buses, guesthouse to guesthouse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI've gotten to where I am by dint of my poor eyesight, \u003cbr\u003emy overreactive motion sickness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e9 p.m., Hanoi's Old Quarter: duck porridge and plum wine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Voices outside the door come to a soft boil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--from \"Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJenny Xie's award-winning debut, \u003ci\u003eEye Level\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jenny Xie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.40w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555978020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Finalist","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713558909065,"sku":"9781555978020","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c4d4ccb1-485a-4128-8ec2-8060bf75ae31.jpg?v=1719615339","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/eye-level-poems-9781555978020","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}