The Rupture Tense: Poems
Reader Score
80%
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Critic Reviews
Good
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Finalist:National Book Award -Poetry (2022)
* 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 *
Book Details
- Publisher: Graywolf Press
- Publish Date: Sep 20th, 2022
- Pages: 120
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 8.95in - 6.54in - 0.33in - 0.42lb
- EAN: 9781644452011
- Categories: • American - Asian American & Pacific Islander
About the Author
Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level, a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award and winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"Xie ingeniously leverages Western prosody to expose the fracture between the 'Asian' and 'American' aspects of Asian American identity."--Srikanth Reddy, The New York Times Book Review
"Luminous. . . . [The Rupture Tense] is a devastating master class in subtlety."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
"With brilliant inquiry and imagination, Jenny Xie writes into what has vanished from the archives of the Cultural Revolution. . . . The Rupture Tense is innovative, stunningly precise, and heartbreaking."--Cathy Park Hong "Xie is a master of cutting wit, and she uses verb tenses and parts of speech as an extended metaphor for things left unsaid."--Joanna Acevedo, Hong Kong Review