Name: Obit
Rating: 3.828947368421053 (38 reviews)
ISBN: 9781556595745

Victoria Chang

After her mother's death, Chang wrote deep into grief by composing "obits"--from her mother's blue dress to language itself.

Obit

“to acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.”

開花

“At the end of the day, someone took the monitor and speakers away. But the music was still there. This was my first understanding of grief.”

shen

second read—still as crystalline, still as startlingly honest

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Natalie

Wholly original and deeply personal poems, though sometimes its imagery feels too personal to be derived meaning from for anyone other than the poet herself. Still, speaking as someone who has not had much experience with earth-shattering grief, this collection was brilliant in its portrayal of an unfamiliar emotion.

Obit

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