The trees witness everything

Chang, Victoria, 1970- author.

Book 2022

"In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called 'wakas,' each poem is shaped by pattern and count. This highly original work innovates inside the lineage of great poets including W.S. Merwin, whose poem titles are repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text, stitching past and pre...

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ISBN:

9781556596322

Description:

xiv, 125 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

Far along in the story
Losing a language
Green fields
Convenience
The cold before the moonrise
Horses
First sight
Prophecy
Snowfall
Still morning
When you go away
To the book
News of the assassin
The flight
To ashes
Avoiding news by the river
The old room
Thanks
The shortest night
Ancestral voices
Passing
History
Rain light
Gift
The thread
No one
Fly
Invocation
The river of bees
Orioles
Another year come
Calling late
To the rain
Little soul
When the war is over
A death in the desert
The dreamers
The wild geese
To the face in the mirror
Turning
The string
Rain at night
Lark
How it happens
Separation
The sound of the light
Walkers
What is modern
White morning
To the words
In the open
Little horse
The notes
In the winter of my thirty-eighth year
Empty water
Late wonders
Lives of the artists
Watchers
How we are spared
To the hand
The child
Losing a language
Foghorn
Witness
Late spring
Threshold
It is march
Distant morning
The master
Utterance
The night plums
Division
Completion
The first year
The dragonfly
History
Dead hand
To age
Spring
The singer
What can we call it
Words
Marfa, texas
Rain travel
Note
October
The time of shadow
My other dark
Transit
The plaster
Dew light
The removal
That music
Inheritance
The shipwreck
Watchers
Garden
September
The gods
The arrival
For a coming extinction
A debt
The unwritten
Wanting to see
A door
The laughing thrush
The heart
The wild
Burning mountain
To impatience
The poem
Strawberries

LCCN:

2021053290

Control Number:

3238670

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