A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022 'Impeccable, precise poems,
sometimes shocking and strange, but always startling' Irish Times 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 innovates inside the
lineage of great poets including W.S. Merwin, whose poem titles are
repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text, stitching past and
present in complex dialogue. Chang depicts the smooth, melancholic
isolation of the mind while reaching outward to name - with
reverence, economy and whimsy - the ache of wanting, the hawk and
its shadow, our human urge to hide the minute beneath the light.
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