Victoria Chang

The Trees Witness Everything

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TurningMy mother is dead.The lemons still turn yellow,the trout still stare emptily,desire is still free.We still love many people,eat peaches as if kissing.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, 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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4721-5745-4
EAN: 9781472157454
Produktnummer: 38227612
Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 144 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H22.6 cm x B10.6 cm x D1.4 cm 140 g
Gewicht: 140

Über den Autor

Victoria Chang's latest book of poetry is The Trees Witness Everything. Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory, was published in 2021. OBIT, her prior book of poems was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also longlisted for a National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and lives in Los Angeles and is a faculty member within Antioch's low-residency MFA Program.