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    Tree of Knowledge

    Victoria Chang

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    A poet watches the limbs of a eucalyptus tree get sawed off: the image persists, recurring across poems of art, language, selfhood, memory, and loss.

    Joan Mitchell said, When I talk about love, I mean loving a tree. When I talk about love, I mean loving where a tree used to be.

    Men assess the eucalyptus tree growing on the poet's street; a crane arrives. The sound of a chainsaw rings in the air and branches begin to fall. This tree-cutting haunts the poet, and refracts across the remarkable work collected in Tree of Knowledge as Chang turns her thoughts to artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Mitchell and Hilma af Klint.

    Roving, evocative, and intricate, Tree of Knowledge is rooted in Victoria Chang's crystalline voice and generous, probing gaze, and by certain images ? trees, a hanging figure, a branch, fingertips, a briefcase ? that resurface like apparitions.

    More books by Victoria Chang
    With My Back to the World
    Victoria Chang
    With My Back to the World
    Obit
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    Obit
    The Trees Witness Everything
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    The Trees Witness Everything
    Victoria Chang

    Victoria Chang

    Victoria Chang is the author of With My Back to the World (Corsair, 2024), which received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Poetry Collection. A few of her other books include The Trees Witness Everything, Dear Memory, and OBIT, named a TIME Magazine, NPR, Publisher's Weekly, and New York Times Book of the Year. OBIT received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize. It was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and it was longlisted for a National Book Award. Her most recent children's book is Eureka. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and she is the Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and the Director of Poetry@Tech.

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