The Rupture Tense: Poems Audiobook, by Jenny Xie Play Audiobook Sample

The Rupture Tense: Poems Audiobook

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Read By: Jenny Xie Publisher: Recorded Books Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 1.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705093528

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

5

Longest Chapter Length:

27:21 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

20 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

18:08 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Across these poems, memory—historical, collective, personal—stains and erodes. Xie voices what remains irreducible in our complex entanglements with familial ties, language, capitalism, and the histories in which we find ourselves lodged. The Rupture Tense begins with poems provoked by the photography of Li Zhensheng, whose negatives, hidden under his floorboards to avoid government seizure, provide one of the few surviving visual archives of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and concludes with an aching elegy for the poet’s grandmother, who took her own life shortly after the end of the Revolution. This extraordinary collection records the aftershocks and long distances between those years and the present, echoing out toward the ongoing past and a trembling future.

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