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Turning
My mother is dead.
The lemons still turn yellow,
the trout still stare emptily,
desire is still free.
We still love many people,
eat peaches as if kissing.
A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life's hardest questions: how to let go.
In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called 'wakas,' each poem is shaped by pattern and count. This highly original work innovates inside the lineage of great poets including W.S. Merwin, whose poem titles are repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text, stitching past and present in complex dialogue. Chang depicts the smooth, melancholic isolation of the mind while reaching outward to name ? with reverence, economy and whimsy ? the ache of wanting, the hawk and its shadow, our human urge to hide the minute beneath the light.
Turning
My mother is dead.
The lemons still turn yellow,
the trout still stare emptily,
desire is still free.
We still love many people,
eat peaches as if kissing.
A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life's hardest questions: how to let go.
In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called 'wakas,' each poem is shaped by pattern and count. This highly original work innovates inside the lineage of great poets including W.S. Merwin, whose poem titles are repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text, stitching past and present in complex dialogue. Chang depicts the smooth, melancholic isolation of the mind while reaching outward to name ? with reverence, economy and whimsy ? the ache of wanting, the hawk and its shadow, our human urge to hide the minute beneath the light.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 144 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781472157454 |
| ISBN-10: | 1472157451 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Chang, Victoria |
| Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Maße: | 226 x 104 x 14 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Victoria Chang |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.05.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,146 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 144 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781472157454 |
| ISBN-10: | 1472157451 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Chang, Victoria |
| Hersteller: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Maße: | 226 x 104 x 14 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Victoria Chang |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.05.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,146 kg |
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