Paper Money

Winshen Liu's Paper Money is a sensory and sparse exploration of grief and the complexity of the second-generation Taiwanese immigrant experience in America.

“Winshen Liu’s poems examine peaches for ripeness and, with the magic only the best writers can conjure, finds a way to measure our own grief, hunger, poverty, and desire. These poems are a balm for anyone with an achy heart or an empty wallet. Winshen Liu is a staggering writer.”

—José Olivarez, author of Promises of Gold and Citizen Illegal

“Despite their weighty subjects—poverty, migration and its attendant losses, familial love, grief—the poems in Paper Money feel mobile and vibrant as butterflies…”

—Melissa Ginsburg, author of Dear Weather Ghost and Doll Apollo

“If money burns a hole in your pocket, spend it on this; send a poem up the sky to someone who needs a reminder that they’re remembered, still.”

—Cortney Lamar Charleston, author of Doppelgangbanger