{"product_id":"eye-level-poems","title":"Eye Level: Poems","description":"FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS FIRST BOOK PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF HOLMES POETRY PRIZE FROM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF LEVIS READING PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years now, I've been using the wrong palette.\u003cbr\u003eEach year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlanes and buses, guesthouse to guesthouse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI've gotten to where I am by dint of my poor eyesight,\u003cbr\u003emy overreactive motion sickness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 p.m., Hanoi's Old Quarter: duck porridge and plum wine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVoices outside the door come to a soft boil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e―from \"Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenny Xie's award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses and departures. The sensual worlds here―colors, smells, tastes, and changing landscapes―bring to life questions about the self as seer and the self as seen. As Xie writes, \"Me? I'm just here in my traveler's clothes, trying on each passing town for size.\" Her taut, elusive poems exult in a life simultaneously crowded and quiet, caught in between things and places, and never quite entirely at home. Xie is a poet of extraordinary perception―both to the tangible world and to \"all that is untouchable as far as the eye can reach.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47854237843682,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-06-2-7.65-397","price":39.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_396_NmzrWQ3Qh.jpg?v=1780448633","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/en-ca\/products\/eye-level-poems","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}