"Secrets, Omissions, the Unknown: On Victoria Chang's 'Dear Memory'"
"Though Chang's memoir is written in letters, attaching itself to a plot with only the most delicate threads, what emerges is a picture of a woman searching for a way to use words and tangible forms to observe and reshape the world. The development of Chang's literary philosophy is as important to her as how she views her parents or her memories of past relationships. Dear Memory is ontology as much as it is ontogeny."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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Poetry Daily Thanks You
Many thanks indeed to all our readers and contributors, whose passion for poetry inspires us, and to all our generous donors who shared the gift of poetry on Giving Tuesday. Without your support we could not continue.
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What Sparks Poetry:
Douglas Luman on bpNichol's "First Screening"
"The poems are active; they literally reveal themselves. Even on what must be my hundredth viewing, the works are clever and moving solutions of poetic and technical 'problems.' Letters flutter, travel, disappear. Linguistic invention gives way to parallel, co-present visual-spatial metaphor. A romance occurs off screen in the code even if the viewer/user doesn't execute the author-provided code to see it happen ('Off-Screen Romance')." |
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