‘To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement’
Jenny Xie’s poetry offers a haunting investigation into the slipperiness of the self.
Jenny Xie
Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level, winner of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the National Book Award, and Nowhere to Arrive, a recipient of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Prize.
Inwardly
"I’m sick of peering at the ego. / No, my ego’s tired of peering at me— / It's she who awakens me into being."
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