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Obit by Victoria ChangAfter her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died ("civility," "language," "the future," "Mother's blue dress") and the cultural

structure and possible meanings of our favorite poetry collections

the human toll on the earth

This edition of Hart Crane’s long poem The Bridge

Even as he practices delight

'I want to make people feel so small that they think I'm the sky

and the blues—is testament to his formal skill

Finalist for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection

' Gabb's poetry traces (chases) the threads of many histories

the intergenerational writers assembled here imagine an altogether overturned world in poems that pursue the particular and multiple trans relationships to desire

Whereas elegy attempts to immortalize the dead

Twenty years in the making

For centuries

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