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With My Back to the World
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection 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'...
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A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit. The collection also includes some of Victoria's original art.
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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 Antrobus
Yesterday 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.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781472158215
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 April 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corsair
Illustration: 20 b/w photo/illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 112
About the Author
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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