Bøker av Victoria Chang

New collection from award-winning poet Victoria Chang, written in response to the work of the celebrated US artist Agnes Martin; the collection also includes some of Victoria's original art.

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

Barbie's cultural artifice is unmasked by Victoria Chang's imagination, lifting the struggle of Asian American experience to mythic levels.

Chang's most recent book, Obit,was one of the most celebrated poetry books of 2020 Obit won the 2020 Pen/Voelcker Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and was longlisted for the National Book Award Obit and this new book, The Trees Witness Everythingare related in that Chang was writing both simultaneously. Chang books have been named to the New York Times Notable Books List twice. Central themes are nature and human activity Inspired by the work of W.S. Merwin

The forthcoming title from award-winning Asian American poet Victoria Chang, whose star is rising.

A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.For poet Victoria Chang, memory "e;isn't something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally."e; It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who first would not and then could not share more. They are whittled and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license, a letter, a visa petition, a photograph. And, just as often, they are built on the questions that can no longer be answered.Dear Memory is not a transcription but a process of simultaneously shaping and being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted missives on trauma and loss, on being American and Chinese, Victoria Chang shows how grief can ignite a longing to know yourself.In letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets, as the imagination, Dear Memory offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.

Circle adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history. These lyrical, narrative, and hybrid poems trace the spiral trajectory of womanhood and growth and plot the progression of self as it ebbs away from and returns to its roots in an Asian American family and context.