With my back to the world : poems
Chang, Victoria, 1970-2024
Book
Total copies: 1
Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square. 'With My Back to the World' engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract modern artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.
Main title:
With my back to the world : poems / Victoria Chang.
Author:
Chang, Victoria, 1970-, author
Imprint:
London : Corsair Poetry, 2024.
Collation:
101 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781472158215 (hbk)
Dewey class:
811.6
Language:
English
BRN:
736733