The Rupture Tense: Poems by Xie, Jenny
The Rupture Tense: Poems by Xie, Jenny

The Rupture Tense: Poems

* FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY * The astounding second collection by Jenny...
$44.00 AUD
$44.00 AUD
SKU: 9781644452011
Product Type: Books
Please hurry! Only 825 left in stock
Author: Jenny Xie
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: $44.00
The Rupture Tense: Poems by Xie, Jenny

The Rupture Tense: Poems

$44.00
The Rupture Tense: Poems by Xie, Jenny

The Rupture Tense: Poems

$44.00
Author: Jenny Xie
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

* FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 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.

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 - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2022 pg. 12
Publishers Weekly 07/18/2022
Library Journal 10/28/2022 pg. 1
Shipping & Return

Returns Policy

You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).

You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).

If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.

Shipping

We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.

When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.

Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.

Review