With My Back to the World

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection 2024

AvVictoria Chang

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2024'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful. A marvel of a collection that engages the eye and mind as much as the ear and heart' Raymond AntrobusYesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract modern artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.With My Back to the World won the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection on the 10th October 2024

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-04
Mått:156 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:112
Förlag:Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:9781472158215

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Victoria Chang's most recent book of poems is, With My Back to the World (Corsair, 2024). A few of her recent books of poetry include The Trees Witness Everything and OBIT, which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also a finalist for the Griffin International Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as longlisted for the National Book Award. Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief was published in 2021. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.

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'In Agnes Martin's grid paintings, each pale rectangle can feel like an hour, a day, or a year. The effect of all these small variations seen at once approximates the overwhelming fact of other lives. With My Back to the World gives Victoria Chang that same kind of quiet, intimate, constrained but infinite room to work in. This book is the record of an artful, attentive mind, full of startling insights ("My solitude is like the grass. I become so aware of its presence that it too begins to feel like an audience"), a testament to care, integrity, and persistence'