Los Angeles Times Book Prize PEN Voelcker Award Anisfield-Wolf Book
Prize New York Times 100 Notable Books Time Magazine's 100
Must-Read Books NPR's Best Books National Book Award in Poetry,
Longlist National Book Critics Circle, Finalist Griffin Poetry
Prize, Shortlist Frank Sanchez Book Award 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. 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
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