Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Chang, Victoria
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Chang, Victoria

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

A Firecracker Award Finalist in Creative NonfictionAn Electric Literature Favorite Nonfiction Book of the YearA Kirkus Best...
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SKU: 9781571313928
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Author: Victoria Chang
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Language: English
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Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Chang, Victoria

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

$38.18
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Chang, Victoria

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

$38.18
Author: Victoria Chang
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

A Firecracker Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction
An Electric Literature Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Kirkus Best Book of the Month

From poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.

For Victoria Chang, memory "isn't something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally." It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who first would not and then could not share more. They are whittled and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license, a letter, a visa petition, a photograph. And, just as often, they are built on the questions that can no longer be answered.

Dear Memory is not a transcription but a process of simultaneously shaping and being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted collages and missives on trauma, loss, and Americanness, Victoria Chang grasps on to a sense of self that grief threatens to dissipate.

In letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets, as the imagination, Dear Memory offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.



Author: Victoria Chang
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781571313928


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/09/2021
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2021

About the Author
Victoria Chang is the author of Dear Memory. Her poetry books include OBIT, Barbie Chang, The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, and Circle. OBIT received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN Voeckler Award; it was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. She is also the author of a children's picture book, Is Mommy?, illustrated by Marla Frazee and named a New York Times Notable Book, and a middle grade novel, Love, Love. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Lannan Residency Fellowship, and a Katherine Min MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles and is the program chair of Antioch University's low-residency MFA program.
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