Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief (USED)

Description: Product Description : Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief A Kirkus Best Book of October 2021From poet Victoria Chang a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generationsFor Victoria Chang memory isnt 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 answeredDear 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 collages and missives on trauma loss and Americanness Victoria Chang grasps on to a sense of self that grief threatens to dissipateIn 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 historiesOther Honors for Dear MemoryAn Electric Literature Favorite Nonfiction Book of 2021A TIME Magazine Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021A Los Angeles Times Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021An NPR Most Anticipated Book of October 2021( it is an used product )

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Location: Houston, Texas

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