Chang Victoria - With My Back To The World Poems - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR Named One of the Best Poetry Collections of the Year by The Guardian Literary Hub and Electric Literature 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. 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 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.
Title: With My Back To The World Poems
Author(s): Chang Victoria
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374611132
Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/2/2024