#victoria chang

[havingapoemwithyou]

it is March by Victoria Chang

[feral-ballad]

Victoria Chang, from Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief; “Dear Teacher,”

[Text ID: “The language of poetry reminded me to stay alive. It reminded me that, when it felt like I had nothing, I was nothing, I still had words. I could ride language as if on a horseback, and it could take me anywhere, including deeply into myself.”]

[beguines]

Victoria Chang, from "The Islands, 1961" (for Agnes Martin)

[geryone]

Starlight, 1962, Victoria Chang

[heavenlyyshecomes]

hi my reader friends lithub has a new syllabi section that has some great (u guessed it!) syllabi from much beloved writers like ocean vuong and ross gay here's the full list that i have already added half of to my tbr:

ekphrastic poetry with victoria chang (featuring works of john ashbery, joy harjo, paul tran)

the literature of obsession with julia may jonas (obsession as transformation, destruction, catharsis and form)

place, space and landscape with alexandra kleeman (featuring didion, okorafor and hernan diaz)

lyric research with ross gay (books that combine research with an "I" like nelson's bluets or christle's the crying book)

hybrid poetry with ocean vuong (traditions, innovations and possibilities featuring bhanu kapil, rimbaud, clifton)

multigenre experiments in form with paul lisicky (for writing that explores connections between genres)

reading about writers with peter ho davies (books that teach the craft and give writing advice, think 'the outline' trilogy)

speculative women with lina maria ferreira cabeza-vanegas (a look at speculative works by women writers like jemisin, butler, k le guin)

writers and the world with viet thanh nguyen (rankine, baldwin, and coates)

sports and contemporary writing with sam lipsyte (exactly what it says on the tin)

[riverbird]

"There is a bird and a stone in your body. Your job is to not kill the bird with the stone." Victoria Chang, from The Trees Witness Everything

[firstfullmoon]

Victoria Chang, from “Love Letters,” in The Trees Witness Everything

[solipseismic]

My mother was a mathematician so I tried to calculate my grief. My father was an engineer so I tried to build a box around my grief, along with a small wooden bed that grief could lie down on.

-- “Grief” from Obit by Victoria Chang

[wensvol]

obit, victoria chang

[loveisdamnation]

being seen

the misunderstanding, albert camus | the hurting kind, ada limón | the archer, taylor swift | georges bataille | victoria chang

[northwindow]

Victoria Chang, from The Trees Witness Everything

[havingapoemwithyou]

wanting to see by Victoria Chang

[feral-ballad]

Victoria Chang, from Barbie Chang; “Dear P.”

[Text ID: “if I press hard enough on my eyeballs / I see / geometric shapes and stars my love / for you / is something like this it is there like / the stars but nothing I can grab or free”]

[ashiqui]

@sproutlett / victoria chang, the trees witness everything / @fishfag

[geryone]

Salvinia Molesta, Victoria Chang

[sageandscorpiongrass]

Birds of a Feather

I have basically this exact thing on my main blog, but I felt the need to add some stuff and put it on this blog properly.

Rule #4: Fish in a Birdcage, Fish in a Birdcage | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou | Song for Sasha Banks, The Mountain Goats | Elektra, Sophocles | I'll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson | Up the Wolves, The Mountain Goats | Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted, Eden Robinson | Photo, Graham Holtshausen | Uwani, Rudy Francisco | Antigone | I Knew You Once, Dodie Clark | Quote by Hannah Gadsby | Brother, Kodaline | Two Birds, Regina Spektor | Quote by Dan Pearce | The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang