Jenny Xie

The Rupture Tense: Poems -- Jenny Xie, Paperback

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The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, "a magician of perspective and scale" (The New Yorker)

Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Across these poems, memory--historical, collective, personal--stains and erodes. Xie voices what remains irreducible in our complex entanglements with familial ties, language, capitalism, and the histories in which we find ourselves lodged.

The Rupture Tense begins with poems provoked by the photography of Li Zhensheng, whose negatives, hidden under his floorboards to avoid government seizure, provide one of the few surviving visual archives of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and concludes with an aching elegy for the poet's grandmother, who took her own life shortly after the end of the Revolution. This extraordinary collection records the aftershocks and long distances between those years and the present, echoing out toward the ongoing past and a trembling future.

Author: Jenny Xie
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 09/20/2022
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.54w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9781644452011
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2022 pg. 12
Publishers Weekly 07/18/2022

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American, Asian American & Pacific Islander, Graywolf Press, Jenny Xie, Paperback, Poetry

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