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

"Groundbreaking . . . Chang's lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family's time capsule and an artist's...
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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

$71.99 $40.00
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Chang, Victoria

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

$71.99 $40.00
Author: Victoria Chang
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Groundbreaking . . . Chang's lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family's time capsule and an artist's timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem." --NPR

Now in paperback, from the poet who "resurrects mediums" (The Millions), 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 in the silences of her father. 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 questions that can no longer be answered.

Dear Memory is not a transcription but a process of shaping and being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history, what emerges is poetry. In letters to family, past teachers, fellow poets, and to the imagination itself, Victoria Chang offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.



Author: Victoria Chang
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 03/17/2026
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781571311887

About the Author
Victoria Chang's most recent book of poems, With My Back to the World, received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Collection and was named a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Obit received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN/Voelcker Award; it was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Other recent books include The Trees Witness Everything and several children's books. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Chowdhury Prize in Literature, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and the Director of Poetry@Tech.
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