01880cam a2200289 i 4500 513728399 TxAuBib 20211207120000.0 210218s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021007010 9781571313928 HRD 25.00 1571313923 HRD 25.00 TxAuBib rda Chang, Victoria, 1970- Dear memory. Dear memory [BOOK] : letters on writing, silence, and grief / by Victoria Chang. First edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2021. 152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Dear Memory 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. Provided by publisher. 20211207. Chang, Victoria 1970- Family. Memories. Essays.