Some Say the Lark

Jennifer Chang

Some Say the Lark
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Alice James Books
Country
Published
10 October 2017
Pages
100
ISBN
9781938584664

Some Say the Lark

Jennifer Chang

Some Say the Lark is a piercing meditation, rooted in loss and longing, and manifest in dazzling leaps of the imagination–the familiar world rendered strange. –Natasha Trethewey

Chang’s poems narrate grief and loss, and intertwines them with hope for a fresh start in the midst of new beginnings. With topics such as frustration with our social and natural world, these poems openly question the self and place and how private experiences like motherhood and sorrow necessitate a deeper engagement with public life and history.

From The Winter’s Wife:

I want wild roots to prosper an invention of blooms, each unknown to every wise gardener. If I could be a color. If I could be a question of tender regard. I know crabgrass and thistle. I know one algorithm:
it has nothing to do with repetition or rhythm. It is the route from number to number (less to more, more to less), a map drawn by proof
not faith. Unlike twilight, I do not conclude with darkness. I conclude.

Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity, which was a finalist for the Glasgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers and listed by Hyphen Magazine as a Top Five Book of Poetry for 2008. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2012, The Nation, Poetry, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at George Washington University and lives in Washington, DC with her family.

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