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New collection from award-winning poet Victoria Chang, written in response to the work of the celebrated US artist Agnes Martin, the collection also includes some of Victoria's original art.

A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit. Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.With My Back to the World engages with ...

Chang's most recent book, Obit, was one of the most celebrated poetry books of 2020 Obit won the 2020 Pen/Voelcker Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and was longlisted for the National Book Award Obit and this new book, The Trees Witness Everythingare related in that Chang was writing both simultaneously. Chang books have been named to the New York Times Notable Books List twice. ...

Victoria Chang is consistently a poet who resurrects mediums." -THE MILLIONS

The forthcoming title from award-winning Asian American poet Victoria Chang, whose star is rising.

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 emerges from these poems' New York TimesWhen someone you love dies, everything dies. Her blue dress dies. Empathy dies. Friendships die. You, having survived, die. Obit is a stunning lyrical distillation of grief, written by Victoria Chang after the death of her mother. Initially refusing...

Frances Chin is an 11-year-old Chinese-American girl who lives in the suburbs of Detroit with her immigrant parents and older sister, Clara. At school Frances contends with bullies and the related loneliness that comes with not quite fitting in. She also feels a different kind of aloneness at home. Her parents are preoccupied with work and worry about Clara, whose hair is inexplicably falling out. While Frances struggles to speak up, she finds...

Victoria Chang is consistently a poet who resurrects mediums." -THE MILLIONS

Frances Chin, a 10-year old Chinese-American girl, lives with her immigrant parents and older sister, Clara. At school Frances copes with bullies and the loneliness of not quite fitting in. And at home, her parents are preoccupied with work and worry about Clara, whose hair is inexplicably falling out. But, with the help of her friend Annie, Frances is determined to solve the mystery of Clara's condition. Frances's powerful inner voice resonat...

After her mother's death, Chang wrote deep into grief by composing "obits"-from her mother's blue dress to language itself.

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Barbie's cultural artifice is unmasked by Victoria Chang's imagination, lifting the struggle of Asian American experience to mythic levels.

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Taking its concept of concentricity from the eponymous Ralph Waldo Emerson essay, "Circle, " the first collection from Victoria Chang, adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history. These lyrical, narrative, and hybrid poems trace the spiral trajectory of womanhood and growth and plot the progression of self as it ebbs away from and returns to its roots in an Asian American family and context. Locating human desire within the hel...

In this irreverent, hilarious, and charming picture book, award-winning poet Victoria Chang and celebrated artist Marla Frazee show that all toddlers love their mommies—no matter what.Is Mommy tall or short? Short! Is Mommy fun or boring? Boring! In this joyous ode to hardworking mothers everywhere—who may not always be fun or organized or neat—Victoria Chang asks, do their toddlers love them anyway? Of course! Marla Frazee's colorful and humo...

Victoria Chang's collection takes its title from what many call "the worst weed in the world, " a plant so rapidly and uncontrollably invasive that it is illegal to sell or possess in the United States. Chang explores this image of vitality and evil in three thematically grouped sections focusing on corporate greed, infidelity and desire, and historical atrocities, including the excesses of the Cultural Revolution in China and the massacre of ...

This exciting anthology of work by up-and-coming writers is the first to profile a new generation of Asian American poets. Building on the legacy of now-canonized poets, such as Li-Young Lee, Cathy Song, and Garrett Hongo, who were the first to achieve widespread recognition in the American literary community, this new generation also strikes off in bold new directions. Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation gathers for the first time a br...