{"product_id":"nowhere-to-arrive-poems-paperback","title":"Nowhere to Arrive: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJenny Xie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNowhere to Arrive\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the familiar and the foreign, between the self as distinct and the self as illusory. They look plainly at the startling strangeness of varied landscapes and mindscapes, and interrogate a state of unrootedness-one thrown into relief by the speaker's years abroad in Southeast Asia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At the chapbook's center are two long poems, titled \"Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season\" and \"Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season,\" that examine the escapist narratives that draw tourists and expatriates to Cambodia, and the speaker's own privileged positioning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On a formal level, the poems in \u003ci\u003eNowhere to Arrive\u003c\/i\u003e make room for the unsaid and that which cannot be articulated. Here, we have a vocabulary of silence alongside stark imagistic juxtapositions, poems that celebrate compression and the force of paratactic constructions. Attentiveness and concentration emerge as virtues, as the speaker surveys the vast territory of the present with a wakeful gaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJENNY XIE\u003c\/b\u003e's work appears in \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She was awarded Princeton University's Theodore H. Holmes '51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize in 2018. She teaches at New York University and lives in Brooklyn. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 6.8 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702595318067,"sku":"9780810135086","price":24.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dHR2Q0w0RklwdHh2UmFoOE04Sm5Xdz09.webp?v=1763312419","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/nowhere-to-arrive-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}