Dear Memory : Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1639550658
ISBN-13
9781639550654
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Imprint
Milkweed Editions
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 30th, 2026
Print length
136 Pages
Product Classification:
Autobiography: literaryDiaries, letters & journalsMemoirs
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“Victoria Chang is consistently a poet who resurrects mediums.” —THE MILLIONS
A TIME Magazine Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021
A Los Angeles Times Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021
A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021
For poet Victoria Chang, memory “isn’t something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally.” It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who first would not and then could not share more. They are whittled and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license, a letter, a visa petition, a photograph. And, just as often, they are built on the questions that can no longer be answered.
Dear Memory is not a transcription but a process of simultaneously shaping and being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted missives on trauma and loss, on being American and Chinese, Victoria Chang shows how grief can ignite a longing to know yourself.
In letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets, as the imagination, Dear Memory offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.
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