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Chang's new collection explores her father's illness and her mother's death, treating mortality as a constantly shifting enigma. A serene acceptance of grief emerges from these poems' New York TimesWhen someone you love dies, everything dies. Her blue dress dies. Empathy dies. Friendships die. You, having survived, die. Obit is a stunning lyrical distillation of grief, written by Victoria Chang after the death of her mother. Initially refusing to write elegies for fear of cliche, Chang heard the word 'obit' and was moved by the strength of its sound, the long O and the hard T. She began writing obituaries for the many casualties of death - one long, skinny rectangle to chronicle each person, experience, object gone - and this became a new form with which to study sorrow. Chang's poetic obituaries are punctuated by formal interruptions, including a series of tankas that reflect on the emotional paradox of parenting while grappling with parental loss. In writing a book about grief, Victoria Chang has held a mirror to life - Obit reveals a stubborn search for language and for hope.'Let's just say I was expecting it to be good, by my lord, it's so much more . . . The collection is innovative in form (newspaper obits), structure, and style. I loved it' Rabih Alameddine, Literary Hub 'Exceptional . . . Chang's poems expand and contract to create surprising geometries of language, vividly capturing the grief they explore' Publishers Weekly, starred review'It is heartbreaking and enthralling. It sings and instructs. It is a world all its own, one that changes ours' Ilya Kaminsky