Debts & Lessons

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ISBN-10: 1890650803
ISBN-13: 9781890650803
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publish Date: 04/01/2013
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.20" H

Debts & Lessons

byLynn Xu

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Overview

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.

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"Lynn Xu's "Debts & Lessons" is a book of influences and emanations. . . . Hers is a poetry of theodicy and, as she traces the features of her own face in the faces of the past, striking originality." –Susan Stewart, author, "The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making"
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ISBN-10: 1890650803
ISBN-13: 9781890650803
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publish Date: 04/01/2013
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.20" H
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