{"product_id":"dear-memory-letters-on-writing-silence-and-grief-9781571313928","title":"Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Firecracker Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003eAn Electric Literature Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Month\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDear Memory \u003c\/em\u003eis 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 dissipate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets, as the imagination, \u003cem\u003eDear Memory\u003c\/em\u003e offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Chang\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDear Memory\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry books include \u003ci\u003eOBIT\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBarbie Chang\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boss\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalvinia Molesta\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCircle\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eOBIT\u003c\/i\u003e received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN Voeckler Award; it was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. She is also the author of a children's picture book, \u003ci\u003eIs Mommy?\u003c\/i\u003e, illustrated by Marla Frazee and named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book, and a middle grade novel, \u003ci\u003eLove, Love\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Lannan Residency Fellowship, and a Katherine Min MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles and is the program chair of Antioch University's low-residency MFA program.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613361279250,"sku":"9781571313928","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b618861a-3976-4676-ba27-101875e0bf66.jpg?v=1773149776","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dear-memory-letters-on-writing-silence-and-grief-9781571313928","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}