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Genre/Form: | poetry Poetry Poésie |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lynn Xu |
ISBN: | 9781890650803 1890650803 |
OCLC Number: | 825559789 |
Awards: | Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Poetry) 2013 |
Description: | 92 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Say you will die for me -- Our love is pure -- Earth light -- Enemy of the absolute -- Night falls -- Lullabies. |
Other Titles: | Poems. Debts and lessons |
Responsibility: | Lynn Xu. |
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Publisher Synopsis
"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) Read more...

