{"product_id":"dear-memory-letters-on-writing-silence-and-grief-9781571313928","title":"Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For poet Victoria Chang, memory \"isn't something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally.\" It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who first would not and then could not share more. They are whittled and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license, a letter, a visa petition, a photograph. And, just as often, they are built on the questions that can no longer be answered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eDear Memory\u003c\/i\u003e is not a transcription but a process of simultaneously shaping and being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted missives on trauma and loss, on being American and Chinese, Victoria Chang shows how grief can ignite a longing to know yourself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets, as the imagination, \u003ci\u003eDear Memory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chang, Victoria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571313928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Victoria Chang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39564602114123,"sku":"9781571313928","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_0bdf645c-519f-4781-a0f9-8125693d6d1d.jpg?v=1635275052","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/dear-memory-letters-on-writing-silence-and-grief-9781571313928","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}