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The Trees Witness Everything (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781556596322)
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xA 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.Author: Victoria Chang
ISBN-10: 1556596324
ISBN-13: 9781556596322
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2022
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 4.00w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/21/2022
Booklist 06/15/2022
By Victoria Chang
xBorn 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.
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