The Trees Witness Everything

by Victoria Chang

Book Overview

A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life's hardest questions: how to let go.

In The Trees Witness Everything, Victoria Chang reinvigorates language by way of concentration, using constraint to illuminate and free the wild interior. Largely composed in various Japanese syllabic forms called "wakas," each...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556596324
• ISBN13: 9781556596322
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.0" x 8.9"