With My Back to the World: Poems
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Title: With My Back to the World: Poems
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 112
Release Date: 2025-04-01
Details: Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR
Named One of the Best Poetry Collections of the Year by The Guardian, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature
A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit.
Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.
With My Back to the World engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.
EAN: 9780374615970
Package Dimensions: Height: 9.1 inches, Length: 6.0999878 inches, Weight: 0.330693393 Pounds, Width: 0.2999994 inches
Languages: en
