Debts & Lessons

By: Lynn Xu

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Paperback | 1 April 2013 | Edition Number 1

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The stirring and striking poems in Lynn Xu's debut collection touch on an array of themes, including thinking of love as an argument; Shakespeare; the American landscape transformed into text; the Occupy Movement; and the experiences wrought from travels in Mexico, Shanghai, and New York City. Named after the first part of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, this collection draws inspiration from history as the author looks to the dead for guidance amid the abstractions of contemporary life. Perceptive and filled with insight into what it means to be human, the poems in this collection will resonate with readers long after setting the book down.

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"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 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 "Xu brings to mind Anne Carson and Susan Howe, especially with regard to form, and Lyn Hejinian, in her relationship to language... While she looks back at her forebears, Xu gives fans of contemporary experimental poetry much to love." -- Publishers Weekly (18 March 2013)

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