With My Back to the World: Poems

Title: With My Back to the World: Poems
Author: Victoria Chang
ISBN: 9780374611132
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2024
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine


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Publisher Description:

Short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit.

Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.

With My Back to the World engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.