{"product_id":"eye-level-poems","title":"Eye Level: Poems","description":"FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY\nWINNER OF ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS FIRST BOOK PRIZE\nWINNER OF HOLMES POETRY PRIZE FROM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY\nFINALIST FOR PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD\nWINNER OF LEVIS READING PRIZE\n\nFor years now, I've been using the wrong palette.\nEach year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date.\n\nPlanes and buses, guesthouse to guesthouse.\n\nI've gotten to where I am by dint of my poor eyesight,\nmy overreactive motion sickness.\n\n9 p.m., Hanoi's Old Quarter: duck porridge and plum wine.\n\nVoices outside the door come to a soft boil.\n\n―from \"Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season\"\n\nJenny 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.\"\n\nWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1555978029\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1555978029.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Xie, Jenny\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41566877384762,"sku":"DBV.1555978029.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1555978029-0.jpg?v=1785386126","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/eye-level-poems","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}