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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 is the author of With My Back to the World (Corsair, 2024), which received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Poetry Collection. A few of her other books include The Trees Witness Everything, Dear Memory, and OBIT, named a TIME Magazine, NPR, Publisher's Weekly, and New York Times Book of the Year. OBIT received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize. It was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and it was longlisted for a National Book Award. Her most recent children's book is Eureka. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and she is the Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and the Director of Poetry@Tech.

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