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The Trees Witness Everything

Victoria Chang
4.18/5 (880 ratings)
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*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Guardian
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Public Library

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.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
144 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1556596324
ISBN13:
9781556596322
kindle Asin:
B09VMQJNMC

The Trees Witness Everything

Victoria Chang
4.18/5 (880 ratings)
Read Download
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Guardian
*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Public Library

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.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
144 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1556596324
ISBN13:
9781556596322
kindle Asin:
B09VMQJNMC

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