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Love, Love (Paperback)
Victoria Chang
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R225
R186
Discovery Miles 1 860
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Fans of Inside Out and Back Again will love this novel-in-verse
about a Chinese-American girl who contends with school bullies,
worries about her sister's mysterious illness, and finds strength
at the local tennis court. 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 strength in her growing tennis
skills, and her powerful inner voice is captured through gorgeous
imagery and evocative free verse.
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 the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the
celebrated abstract modern artist, in ways that open up new modes
of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the
human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and
profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence,
life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly
original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a
book that speaks to how we see and are seen.
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Obit (Paperback)
Victoria Chang
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R341
Discovery Miles 3 410
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Lives (Paperback)
C.J. Evans; Introduction by Victoria Chang
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R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
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2021 Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry "The book is
intimate, expansive, and in moments, willfully hopeful." -Victoria
Chang, winner of the PEN Voelcker Award for OBIT Here are poems
with music matched to matter, so that reading them often involves
both swoon and startle: "When it folds open, the rule-less rile /
of sky," Evans, writes, "the comets and giants. And also: / books,
chamomile, and more kissing." Panoramic in time and space, Lives
knows each of us, our ordinary lives and our occupancy within
history and the universe, our yearning for connection: "And if I
turned to you now, my one wet muscle run dry, would you / turn to
me? And what else could my heart be for if not to try?"
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.
A Kirkus Best Book of October 2021 From poet Victoria Chang, a
collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of
remembering across generations. For Victoria Chang, memory "isn't
something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally." It is
willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in
this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories
her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who
first would not and then could not share more. They are whittled
and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license,
a letter, a visa petition, a photograph. And, just as often, they
are built on the questions that can no longer be answered. Dear
Memory is not a transcription but a process of simultaneously
shaping and being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen
into history, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted collages
and missives on trauma, loss, and Americanness, Victoria Chang
grasps on to a sense of self that grief threatens to dissipate. In
letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets, as the
imagination, Dear Memory offers a model for what it looks like to
find ourselves in our histories. Other Honors for Dear Memory: An
Electric Literature Favorite Nonfiction Book of 2021 A TIME
Magazine Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021 A Los Angeles Times
Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021 A Literary Hub Most Anticipated
Book of 2021An NPR Most Anticipated Book of October 2021
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Obit (Paperback)
Victoria Chang
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R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
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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
This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and
feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang
examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century
selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to meet their
needs in a modernizing Confucian culture. She illustrates the rise
and fall of women's movements against the historical backdrop of
the island's contested national identities, first vis-a-vis
imperial Japan (1895-1945) and later with postwar China
(1945-2000). In particular, during periods of soft authoritarianism
in the Japanese colonial era and late twentieth century, autonomous
women's movements emerged and operated within the political
perimeters set by the authoritarian regimes. Women strove to
replace the "Good Wife, Wise Mother" ideal with an individualist
feminism that meshed social, political, and economic gender equity
with the prevailing Confucian family ideology. However, during
periods of hard authoritarianism from the 1930s to the 1960s, the
autonomous movements collapsed. The particular brand of Taiwanese
feminism developed from numerous outside influences, including
interactions among an East Asian sociopolitical milieu, various
strands of Western feminism, and Marxist-Leninist women's
liberation programs in Soviet Russia. Chinese communism appears not
to have played a significant role, due to the Chinese Nationalists'
restriction of communication with the mainland during their rule on
post-World War II Taiwan. Notably, this study compares the
perspectives of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, whose husband led as the
president of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1949 to 1975, and
Hsiu-lien Annette Lu, Taiwan's vice president from 2000 to 2008.
Delving into period sources such as the highly influential feminist
monthly magazine Awakening as well as interviews with feminist
leaders, Chang provides a comprehensive historical and
cross-cultural analysis of the struggle for gender equality in
Taiwan.
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
Chinese people in Nanking by Japanese troops in World War II.
This edgy, fierce subject matter becomes engaging and fresh as
Chang applies her powers of imagination to the extraordinary lives
of Madame Mao, investment banker Frank P. Quattrone, and others
living at extraordinary historical moments. In "Seven Stages of
Genocide," for example, the poem's speaker is herded into a death
camp along with a neighbor that he strongly dislikes: "The barbed
wire around us forces me / to catch his breath that smells like
goose." Chang focuses her attention to occurrences in the world
that many poets find too violent or disturbing to write about,
thereby making her own distinctive aesthetic from that which is,
like Salvinia molesta, both creepy and beautiful.
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Circle (Paperback)
Victoria Chang, Jon Tribble
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R697
Discovery Miles 6 970
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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 helixes of politics,
society, and war, Chang skillfully draws arcs between T'ang Dynasty
suicides and Alfred Hitchcock leading ladies, between the Hong Kong
Flower Lounge and an all-you-can-eat Sunday brunch, the Rape of
Nanking and civilian casualties in Iraq.
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