{"product_id":"9781472157485-obit","title":"Obit","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe breakout collection about grief, loss and living from award-winning Asian American poet Victoria Chang, whose star is rising.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePEN Voelcker Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnisfield-Wolf Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Notable Books \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine's 100 Must-Read Books \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR's Best Books \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award in Poetry, Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Critics Circle, Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize, Shortlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Sanchez Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter 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. 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. Loss, and the love for the dead, becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eChang's new collection explores her father's illness and her mother's death, treating mortality as a constantly shifting enigma\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eA serene acceptance of grief' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"100 Notable Books of 2020\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exceptional. Chang's poems expand and contract to create surprising geometries of language, vividly capturing the grief they explore'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943953379425,"sku":"9781472157485","price":12.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26708087.jpg?v=1722001265","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472157485-obit","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}