02363cam a2200301 4500 545491810 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781571317360 1571317368 c2bf3762-5ce1-4d03-a6ee-894c770dacf9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6941191 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Chang, Victoria. Dear Memory [Libby] : Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Milkweed Editions, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 14MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Writing. Language Arts. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.</b><br /> 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.<br /> <i>Dear Memory</i> 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.<br /> In letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets, as the imagination, <i>Dear Memory</i> offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c2bf3762-5ce1-4d03-a6ee-894c770dacf9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c2bf3762-5ce1-4d03-a6ee-894c770dacf9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)