Jenny Xie
Graywolf Press (Walt Whitman Award)
Desire makes beggars out of each
and every one of us.
Cavity that cannot close.
That cracks open more distances.
—from “Phnom Penh Diptych:
Wet Season”
HOW IT BEGAN: Some of the very earliest poems in this book were seeded in graduate schoolare shaped by visual encounters and entanglements. This was showing in the poems, but it wasn’t until later that I saw the connective thread.
