Obit

'Chang's new collection explores her father's illness and her mother's death, treating mortality as a constantly shifting enigma. A serene acceptance of grief' - The New York Times, "100 Notable Books of 2020"

'Exceptional... Chang's poems expand and contract to create surprising geometries of language, vividly capturing the grief they explore' - Publishers Weekly, starred review

'These are poems that reproduce the logic and feeling of loss?a gift for anyone who has struggled to find words to express grief' - NPR

'Chang has created a unique poetic construct... The feeling of hope is a theme throughout this solid collection, in variations Chang evokes with grace' - Booklist

'[Obit] marshals all the resources of poetry against the relentless emotional cascade that's associated with death?and, very much to its credit, and as a testament to its success, the book has arrived at a kind of momentary stalemate against that cascade' - Rick Barot

'Chang is consistently a poet who resurrects mediums, her work living within surprising spaces and forms, and both exposing and surpassing the possibilities for those structures... Chang has the rare poetic talent to follow the edges of dark comedy to find sentiment rather than irony' - The Millions

'Victoria Chang has created something powerful and unconventional. These poems are zinger curveballs' - Los Angeles Review of Books

'Fearless' - Ploughshares