Nowhere to Arrive: Poems

by Jenny Xie

Nowhere to Arrive 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810135086
• ISBN13: 9780810135086
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.8" x 6.8"