With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang

With My Back to the World: Poems

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With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang
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With My Back to the World: Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

With My Back to the World: Poems

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Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR
Named One of the Best Poetry Collections of the Year by The Guardian, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature

A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit.

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 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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374615970
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Victoria Chang
Published Date:
2025-04-01
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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