The Rupture Tense
by Xie, Jenny
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- Paperback
- first
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- New
- ISBN 10
- 1644452014
- ISBN 13
- 9781644452011
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Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2022. First printing. Paperback. New. 110pp. Octavo. [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. "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.
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.
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- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63363
- Title
- The Rupture Tense
- Author
- Xie, Jenny
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 1644452014
- ISBN 13
- 9781644452011
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis, MN
- Date Published
- 2022
- Keywords
- rwxmas2022; bard college; walt whitman award
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About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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