The Trees Witness Everything
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1556596324
ISBN-13
9781556596322
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Imprint
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 9th, 2022
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
148 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 10.20 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry
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A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life’s hardest questions: how to let go.
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 present in complex dialogue. Chang depicts the smooth, melancholic isolation of the mind while reaching outward to name—with reverence, economy, and whimsy—the ache of wanting, the hawk and its shadow, our human urge to hide the minute beneath the light.Get The Trees Witness Everything by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Copper Canyon Press,U.S. and it has pages.
