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Debts & Lessons
Lynn Xu
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Description for Debts & Lessons
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 150.
The poems in Lynn Xu's striking debut collection, Debts & Lessons, travel under the power of history's illusory engine and echo its ululations of love, violence, and lament. Named after the first part of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, this book also finds its way across oceans and between languages, as the poet looks to the dead for guidance amid the abstractions of contemporary life. Xu pays her phantoms (and her readers) with the dream-currency of hallucinatory songs, which balance her finely-tuned ear against a world of awakenings.
The poems in Lynn Xu's striking debut collection, Debts & Lessons, travel under the power of history's illusory engine and echo its ululations of love, violence, and lament. Named after the first part of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, this book also finds its way across oceans and between languages, as the poet looks to the dead for guidance amid the abstractions of contemporary life. Xu pays her phantoms (and her readers) with the dream-currency of hallucinatory songs, which balance her finely-tuned ear against a world of awakenings.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Richmond, CA, United States
ISBN
9781890650803
SKU
V9781890650803
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Debts & Lessons
"Lynn Xu makes the poetic line a little theater where the belatedness of language is felt
and sometimes lulled into suspension. [She] is an expert at multiplying sites of resonance and ambiguity, of conjoining or confusing epochs and zones."
Ben Lerner, Boston Review "Lynn Xu's Debts & Lessons is a book of influences and emanations... Hers is a poetry of ... Read more
and sometimes lulled into suspension. [She] is an expert at multiplying sites of resonance and ambiguity, of conjoining or confusing epochs and zones."
Ben Lerner, Boston Review "Lynn Xu's Debts & Lessons is a book of influences and emanations... Hers is a poetry of ... Read more