![]() ‘ Chang’s new collection explores her father’s illness and her mother’s death, treating mortality as a constantly shifting enigma. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living. Loss, and the love for the dead, becomes a conduit for self-expression. ![]() 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 impact of death on the living. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. The breakout collection about grief, loss and living from award-winning Asian American poet Victoria Chang, whose star is. ![]() ![]() After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. ![]()
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