With My Back to the World: Poems

"These poems of remarkable vividness and depth, many with visual components printed en face, converse with the works of artists Agnes Martin and On Kawara, engaging in a constant celebration of life in terms of its inexorable passing, a feast of grief in which “death still catches me by surprise.” Victoria Chang’s finely tuned ear for microtones among the lower emotional notes makes this book good company as the days darken."