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Nowhere to Arrive
Jenny Xie
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Description for Nowhere to Arrive
Paperback. Nowhere to Arrive is an original collection of poems by award-winning writer Jenny Xie. The collection features two long poems, titled "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season" and "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season." Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 5. .
Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the familiar and the foreign, between the self as distinct and the self as illusory. They look plainly at the startling strangeness of varied landscapes and mindscapes, and interrogate a state of unrootedness - one thrown into relief by the speaker's years abroad in Southeast Asia.
At the chapbook's center are two long poems, titled "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season" and "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season," that examine the ... Read more
Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the familiar and the foreign, between the self as distinct and the self as illusory. They look plainly at the startling strangeness of varied landscapes and mindscapes, and interrogate a state of unrootedness - one thrown into relief by the speaker's years abroad in Southeast Asia.
At the chapbook's center are two long poems, titled "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season" and "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season," that examine the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810135086
SKU
V9780810135086
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About Jenny Xie
Jenny Xie's work appears in Tin House, the New Republic, Harvard Review, the Literary Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She teaches at New York University and lives in Brooklyn.
Reviews for Nowhere to Arrive
Without ever taking the easy way out, this poet has crafted a book of questions and a book of sensual search. It is a beautiful one and we will all be enriched for reading it."" - Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas and The Virgin of Flames