Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang

Trees Witness Everything

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Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang
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Trees Witness Everything

Copper Canyon Press

Trees Witness Everything

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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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN:
9781556596322
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
144
Authors:
Victoria Chang
Published Date:
2022-04-26
Language:
English
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About Victoria Chang

Author of Obit (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), Victoria Chang received the PEN/Voelcker Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for that collection, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she holds a BA from the University of Michigan, an MA from Harvard University, an MBA from Stanford University, and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press, 2022) followed. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and directs Poetry@Tech.

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