"Groundbreaking . . . Chang's lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family's time capsule and an artist's timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem." -NPR
Now in paperback, from the poet who "resurrects mediums" (The Millions), a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.
For 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 in the silences of her father. 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 questions that can no longer be answered.
Dear Memory is 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 letters to family, past teachers, fellow poets, and to the imagination itself, Victoria Chang offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.
| ISBN: | 9781571311887 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2026 |
| Author: | Victoria Chang |
| Publisher: | Milkweed Editions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 136 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies Autobiography: general Migration, immigration and emigration Family history, tracing ancestors Memoirs |
"Groundbreaking . . . Chang's lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family's time capsule and an artist's timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem." -NPR
Now in paperback, from the poet who "resurrects mediums" (The Millions), a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.
For 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 in the silences of her father. 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 questions that can no longer be answered.
Dear Memory is 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 letters to family, past teachers, fellow poets, and to the imagination itself, Victoria Chang offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.
Dear Memory features in the following genres: Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Autobiography: general, Memoirs
Dear Memory is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Dear Memory was written by Victoria Chang and published by Milkweed Editions
Dear Memory has 136 pages
£13.49