Debts & Lessons

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: 04/01/2013
ISBN: 9781890650803
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/18/2013
Library Journal 04/15/2013 pg. 85