The Rupture Tense

* 2023 PEN OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES BOOK AWARD WINNER * * FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY * * FINALIST FOR THE 2023 BALCONES PRIZE FOR POETRY * The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” ( The New Yorker ) 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 sequenc