After 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 impact of death on the living. Whereas elegy attempts to immortalize the dead, an obituary expresses loss, and the love for the dead becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living.
- Forgotten Conqueror
- Damnation: A Cinderella Retelling (Tales of Cinder Book 3)
- The Missing Piece
- Dangerous Redemption: A Single Parent Forbidden Romance Novel (Paths To Love Book 4)
- Feel Again
- Lost Memories And New Beginnings (The Men 0f Fire Beach Book 2)
- Olive
- Miss Fortune's First Kiss (Fortunes of Fate Book 9)