Results for "Chang, Victoria"

A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit. Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was a... Read More about With My Back to the World: Poems

After her mother's death, Chang wrote deep into grief by composing "obits"-from her mother's blue dress to language itself.... Read More about Obit

A Firecracker Award Finalist in Creative NonfictionAn Electric Literature Favorite Nonfiction Book of the YearA Kirkus Best Book of the Month From poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For Victoria Chang, memory "isn't someth... Read More about Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life's hardest questions: how to let go. In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration... Read More about The Trees Witness Everything

2021 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry "The book is intimate, expansive, and in moments, willfully hopeful." --Victoria Chang, winner of the PEN Voelcker Award for OBIT Here are poems with music matched to matter, so that reading them often involves both swoon and startle: "When i... Read More about Lives

“What gives us the right to listen to someone else’s body?”—Alisha Dietzman, from Sweet MovieA National Poetry Series winner selected by Victoria Chang, Sweet Movie confronts romantic and religious masochism to interrogate spiritual, sexual, and moral agencySweet Movie’s love poems and ekphrasis ech... Read More about Sweet Movie: Poems (National Poetry Series #8)