Dear Memory Letters On Writing Silence And Grief 2nd Edition Victoria Chang by Victoria Chang 9781571317360, 1571317368, 2021007010, 2021007011 instant download after payment.

For poet Victoria Chang, memory “isn’t something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally.” It is willed, summoned, & dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, & the silences of her father, who first would not & then could not share more. They are whittled & 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 & being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted missives on trauma & loss, on being American & Chinese, Victoria Chang shows how grief can ignite a longing to know yourself. In letters to family, past teachers, & fellow poets, as the imagination, Dear Memory offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.