Victoria Chang
1) Is Mommy?
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In this ode to hardworking mommies everywhere, they may not always be fun or neat, but their toddlers love them no matter what"-- Provided by publisher.
2) Obit: poems
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by concentrating it, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called wakas, each poem is shaped by pattern and count. This highly original work innovates inside the lineage of great poets, including W.S. Merwin, whose poem titles are repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text, stitching past and present in...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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:...