Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang’s newest book of poems is Tree of Knowledge by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her most recent book of poems, With My Back to the World, was published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Corsair Books in the UK, and received the Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry. She is a Professor at Georgia Tech and serves as the Bourne Chair in Poetry and the Director of Poetry@Tech.
Reading List
Spring (Pablo Picasso)
What to do with my dead mother’s proverbs, my dead father’s unlived years.
The Swan, No. 23
(Hilma af Klint)
(Hilma af Klint)
How many poems have started and splintered with crying.
Obit
My Mother’s Lungs—began their dying sometime in the past.