{"product_id":"9781639550654","title":"Dear Memory","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eletters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations that “vibrates beautifully off the page . . . resulting in wisdom that seems both freshly discovered and fathoms deep” (Cathy Park Hong).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Memory \u003c\/i\u003eis not a transcription but a process of 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victoria Chang","offers":[{"title":"Milkweed Editions |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-04-25","offer_id":44413976346879,"sku":"9781639550654","price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a09a526d-992f-47d0-8b1e-088edf2cdc80.jpg?v=1697657610","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781639550654","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}