Guilt Ledger

Winner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Sandra Beasley, Guilt Ledger is Ross White’s sophomore poetry collection.

In Guilt Ledger, money is a weight, a wound, and a reckoning. Opening amid the fallout of the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s, this collection maps the complex and corrosive impact of the financial sector on a family. It charts a childhood in the banking centers of the South and the speaker’s acceptance of late-stage capitalism’s unpayable cost: the emotional loss ...