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Late evening scene aboard a vintage subway car beneath a funky fresh City, facing the stainless steel wall with an inset poster; the poster has a colourful motif and displays a poem title Origin Story by Jenny Xie; it reads:

"I was profligate like a floodlight to the sun.

Hoarded saccharine and toothmarks,
wanted only the thickest rhymes, two of each.

Full I was of promises I never intended to keep:
puckered laughter, lines to feast.

I let everyone who entered my life enter through me.
Demanded nonsense love and bodies that would ring.

Not to mention higher kilowatts
of creeping joy, more red in everything—";
the reflection of the nineteen-seventies-era bright orange seating reflects on the shiny, stainless steel wall; near the top of the wall is a manufacturer's nomenclature plate that reads "Alsthom" - whatever that is.

Late evening scene aboard a vintage subway car beneath a funky fresh City, facing the stainless steel wall with an inset poster; the poster has a colourful motif and displays a poem title Origin Story by Jenny Xie; it reads: "I was profligate like a floodlight to the sun. Hoarded saccharine and toothmarks, wanted only the thickest rhymes, two of each. Full I was of promises I never intended to keep: puckered laughter, lines to feast. I let everyone who entered my life enter through me. Demanded nonsense love and bodies that would ring. Not to mention higher kilowatts of creeping joy, more red in everything—"; the reflection of the nineteen-seventies-era bright orange seating reflects on the shiny, stainless steel wall; near the top of the wall is a manufacturer's nomenclature plate that reads "Alsthom" - whatever that is.

New York photo of the day.
Manhattan.
42°F (20° C), cloudy.
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗘𝘆𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗫𝗶𝗲 -

Xie's exploration of the otherness in/of/by place is a potent meditation on alienation and self, on our perception of culture.

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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗘𝘆𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹” 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗫𝗶𝗲 -

Xie's verse turns inward to juxtapose self against the places and barriers they create, leaving us untethered, unsolved.

#bookreviews #literature #books #book #read #jennyxie #eyelevel #poetry #booksky

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗘𝘆𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗫𝗶𝗲 -

Much recommended poetry of dislocation from a young woman who finds herself in several locales, each with its own dry ironies.

#jennyxie #poetry #eyelevel #immigration #dislocation #identity #booksky

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