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Victoria Chang
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Award-winning poet
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Exciting new poetry
forthcoming
Forward Prize-winning poet
Poems about art
Poems about memory
Poems about nature
Victoria Chang poetry

Product details

  • ISBN 9781472160300
  • Dimensions: 156 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Jul 2026
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

A poet watches the limbs of a eucalyptus tree get sawed off: the image persists, recurring across poems of art, language, selfhood, memory, and loss.

Joan Mitchell said, When I talk about love, I mean loving a tree. When I talk about love, I mean loving where a tree used to be.

Men assess the eucalyptus tree growing on the poet's street; a crane arrives. The sound of a chainsaw rings in the air and branches begin to fall. This tree-cutting haunts the poet, and refracts across the remarkable work collected in Tree of Knowledge as Chang turns her thoughts to artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Mitchell and Hilma af Klint.

Roving, evocative, and intricate, Tree of Knowledge is rooted in Victoria Chang's crystalline voice and generous, probing gaze, and by certain images ― trees, a hanging figure, a branch, fingertips, a briefcase ― that resurface like apparitions.
About Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang has written several books of poetry, including With My Back to the World, The Trees Witness Everything, and a nonfiction book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Her poetry collection OBIT was named a New York Times Notable Book; received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN/Voelcker Award; and was long-listed for the National Book Award, named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. With My Back to the World received the Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry and was shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award, California Book Award, and Kingsley Tufts Award. Chang has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Chowdhury Prize in Literature. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and the director of Poetry@Tech.

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