Eye Level
Jenny Xie's debut collection travels from Phnom Penh to Corfu to New York in poems about solitude and the self.
Eye Level won the 2018 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and was a finalist for that year’s National Book Award for Poetry. The poems move through Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi and New York, drawing closer to a deeply felt solitude. They meditate on what moors the self and sets it moving, from immigration and travel to estranging losses. Ada Limón calls it a high wire act that deserves attention.
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