Victoria Chang

"From National Book Award-longlisted poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations"-- Provided by publisher. Chang's remembrances are contained in a collection of letters. They 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. The letters are sculpted from an archive of family relics:...

"After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died ("civility," "language," "the future," "Mother's blue dress") and the cultural...