Obit

Obit
Victoria Chang
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Paperback
h214 x 132mm - 128pg
5 May 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781472157485
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Los Angeles Times Book PrizePEN Voelcker AwardAnisfield-Wolf Book PrizeNew York Times 100 Notable Books Time Magazine' s 100 Must-Read Books NPR' s Best Books National Book Award in Poetry, LonglistNational Book Critics Circle, FinalistGriffin Poetry Prize, ShortlistFrank Sanchez Book AwardAfter 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. 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. Loss, and the love for the dead, becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living. ' Chang' s new collection explores her father' s illness and her mother' s death, treating mortality as a constantly shifting enigma. A serene acceptance of grief' New York Times, "100 Notable Books of 2020"' Exceptional. . . Chang' s poems expand and contract to create surprising geometries of language, vividly capturing the grief they explore' Publishers Weekly
' In Chang' s telling, grief shoots off in all directions, killing off dozens of other things: appetite, blame, the deceased' s old clothes. Chang sets out to catalogue them all, and does so with rangy metaphysical imagination and terse precision. . . [a] solemn, gorgeous, understated book' -- Stephanie Sy-Quia * TLS * Chang' s new collection explores her father' s illness and her mother' s death, treating mortality as a constantly shifting enigma. A serene acceptance of grief * New York Times ' 100 Most Notable Books 2020' * Exceptional . . . Chang' s poems expand and contract to create surprising geometries of language, vividly capturing the grief they explore * Publishers Weekly, starred review * These are poems that reproduce the logic and feeling of loss? a gift for anyone who has struggled to find words to express grief * NPR * [Obit]is heartbreaking and enthralling. It sings and instructs. It is a world all its own -- Ilya Kaminsky * The Week * Victoria Chang has created something powerful and unconventional. These poems are zinger curveballs * Los Angeles Review of Books * Chang has created a unique poetic construct . . . The feeling of hope is a theme throughout this solid collection, in variations Chang evokes with grace * Booklist * Chang is consistently a poet who resurrects mediums, her work living within surprising spaces and forms, and both exposing and surpassing the possibilities for those structures . . . Chang has the rare poetic talent to follow the edges of dark comedy to find sentiment rather than irony * The Millions * Each poem is a masterwork of compression and compassion * Kenyon Review *
Born in Detroit, Michigan to Taiwanese immigrants, Victoria Chang was educated at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and Stanford Business School and holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson. She is the author of six books of poetry, including Obit, which was named a ' New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020' and included on Time Magazine' s ' 100 Must-Read Books of 2020' . She lives in Southern California with her family and serves as the Program Chair of Antioch' s Low-Residency MFA Program
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781472157485
Published: 5 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corsair
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 214mm
Width: 132mm
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 149g
Pages: 128

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