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And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight, Lynn Xu's book-length poem, is a brilliant embodiment of time's effect on languages and histories.
About the author
Born in Shanghai, China, Lynn Xu is the author of the full-length collection
Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn, 2013) and the chapbooks
June (Corollary Press, 2006) and
Tournesol (Compline, 2021). She has performed cross-disciplinary works at the Guggenheim Museum, The Renaissance Society, Rising Tide Projects, and 300 S. Kelly Street. She teaches at Columbia University, coedits Canarium Books, and lives with her family in New York City and Marfa, Texas.
Summary
Part protest against reality, part metaphysical reckoning, part internationale for the world-historical surrealist insurgency, and part arte povera for the wretched of the earth, Lynn Xu's book-length poem, And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight, holds fast to our fragile utopias. Under the auspice of birth and the contingency of this beginning, time opens: ecstatic, melancholy, and defiant, the voices of the poem flicker between life and death, gorgeous and gruesome, visionary and intimate.
Foreword
- Digital galley and print review copy mailings to major book reviews, literary journals, and library buyers' guides.
- Author interview pitches.
- Social media campaign.
- Outreach to independent booksellers.
- Outreach to poetry and related literary organizations, especially Poetry Project and Woodland Pattern.
- Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author events, mostly in New York City and Marfa, Texas, as Lynn lives in both places.
- Display at conferences and bookfairs, including AWP and especially BOMB Small Press Flea, Brooklyn Book Festival, and Printed Matter.
