Another Lost Year

by Victoria Chang

Chapbook

About the author

Victoria Chang's latest book of poems is With My Back to the World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Corsair in the UK), which received the Forward Prize in Poetry for the Best Collection. Her most recent book is The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press, 2022). Her prose book, Dear Memory, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2021. Her recent book of poems, OBIT, was published in 2020 by Copper Canyon Press. It was named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a TIME, NPR, Publisher's Weekly, Book of the Year. It received the LA Times Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award. It was also a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the NBCC, and long listed for the NBA. She is the Bourne Chair of Poetry and the Director of Poetry@Tech at Georgia Tech.

Her website is www.victoriachangpoet.com. Twitter: @VChangPoet.

Reviews

[J Macarty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Behold the latest chapbook from Brian Teare's Albion Books :: Another Lost Year by Victoria Chang :: a collection of 30 short poems of intense observation composed in various Japanese forms. Two of my favorites have in lemons.

"Some days I can't see
beyond the two small lemons..." -from "Thanks"
🍋🍋

"The Lemons are gone,
some one picked them off the tree.
They have grown too fast for hope." -from "Watchers"