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The rupture tense : poems / Jenny Xie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 110 pages : illustration ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781644452011
  • 1644452014
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Controlled exposure. Red puncta ; Red puncta ; Memory soldier ; Red puncta ; Red puncta ; Red puncta ; The game -- No vector. The rupture tense -- Deep storage. Broken proverbs ; Deep storage ; 1968 stereoscope ; 1976 stereoscope ; 1977 stereoscope ; Expenditures ; Postmemory ; Reaching saturation -- Present continuous. Meeting places ; Misconjugate ; The made world ; Territories unmapped ; Present continuous ; Unit of measure ; In search of ; Distance sickness.
Summary: "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."-- Provided by Amazon.
List(s) this item appears in: Poetry Month
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.6 X6 Available 33111010918338
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

* 2023 PEN OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES BOOK AWARD WINNER *
* FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY *
* FINALIST FOR THE 2023 BALCONES PRIZE FOR POETRY *

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.

Includes bibliographical references

Controlled exposure. Red puncta ; Red puncta ; Memory soldier ; Red puncta ; Red puncta ; Red puncta ; The game -- No vector. The rupture tense -- Deep storage. Broken proverbs ; Deep storage ; 1968 stereoscope ; 1976 stereoscope ; 1977 stereoscope ; Expenditures ; Postmemory ; Reaching saturation -- Present continuous. Meeting places ; Misconjugate ; The made world ; Territories unmapped ; Present continuous ; Unit of measure ; In search of ; Distance sickness.

"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."-- Provided by Amazon.

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