![]() “ marshals all the resources of poetry against the relentless emotional cascade that’s associated with death-and, very much to its credit, and as a testament to its success, the book has arrived at a kind of momentary stalemate against that cascade.”-Rick Barot These poems observe how parts of us die when relationships change, and are a gift to us in this year of collective grief.” - The Boston Globe ![]() ![]() “Anchored in bereavement, Chang’s ‘obituaries’ are also buoyed by humor. “Chang has created a unique poetic construct… The feeling of hope is a theme throughout this solid collection, in variations Chang evokes with grace: ‘Hope / is the wildest bird, the one that flies / so fast it will either disappear or burst / into flames.’ Chang’s poetry fine tunes that conflagration with acuity.” -Booklist These are poems that reproduce the logic and feeling of loss-a gift for anyone who has struggled to find words to express grief.” -NPR “Chang’s sharp crystallizations of the pain and disorientation of death, and the way it reverberates through life, bring us to the raw heart of grief without the overblown language of classical elegy. “Exceptional… Chang’s poems expand and contract to create surprising geometries of language, vividly capturing the grief they explore.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review “In, mortality is not a before and after state, but rather a constantly shifting enigma…” - The New York Times Book Review A serene acceptance of grief emerges from these poems.” - The New York Times, “100 Notable Books of 2020” “Chang’s new collection explores her father’s illness and her mother’s death, treating mortality as a constantly shifting enigma. Chang sets out to catalogue them all, and does so with rangy metaphysical imagination and terse precision.” - Times Literary Supplement “In Chang’s telling, grief shoots off in all directions, killing off dozens of other things: appetite, blame, the deceased’s old clothes. ![]()
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