Obit

Obit

• Victoria Chang • ISBN-13 9781556595745

ISBN-10 1556595743 • 2020

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ISBN 9781556595745 • Completeness 51

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After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, 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.

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