Obit

Victoria Chang

Obit
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country
United States
Published
14 July 2020
Pages
120
ISBN
9781556595745

Obit

Victoria Chang

The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020

‘s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020

NPR’s Best Books of 2020

National Book Award in Poetry, Longlist

Frank Sanchez Book Award

Chang writes of the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking. 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. Whereas elegy attempts to immortalize the dead, an obituary expresses 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.

When you lose someone you love, the world doesn’t stop to let you mourn. Nor does it allow you to linger as you learn to live with a gaping hole in your heart. Indeed, this daily indifference to being left behind epitomizes the unique pain of grieving. Victoria Chang captures this visceral, heart-stopping ache in Obit, Time Magazine

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