Tree of Knowledge
jul. del 2026 · Hachette UK
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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.
In her roving new collection, Victoria Chang directs her generous, probing gaze to a range of subjects - most notably, Hilma af Klint - unified by Chang's crystalline poetic voice and her subtle use of reoccurring visual motifs. Across these poems, certain images - trees, a hanging figure, a branch, fingertips, a briefcase - resurface, like apparitions.
Tree of Knowledge begins by circling around a potent, reoccurring image: the cutting of the limbs of a eucalyptus tree outside the poet's window. Echoes of the imagery of tree-cutting are refracted in an array of works of visual art, as this image becomes the locus from which the poems spiral out. As the book continues, we move from the personal to the historical, in a startling poem that takes the violent 1885 expulsion of Chinese Americans from Eureka as its subject. The poet then moves back to the ekphrastic, as the artist and mystic Hilma af Klint emerges as an interlocutor and 'fellow traveler' of sorts, sharing the poet's artistic and philosophical preoccupations: Af Klint becomes a model for a particular way of seeing and engaging with the world.
Evocative, intricate, and deeply considered, Tree of Knowledge is in conversation with themes of Chang's previous work, but also casts its roots simultaneously deeper and farther afield, in its brilliant meditations on art, language, selfhood, memory, and loss.
In her roving new collection, Victoria Chang directs her generous, probing gaze to a range of subjects - most notably, Hilma af Klint - unified by Chang's crystalline poetic voice and her subtle use of reoccurring visual motifs. Across these poems, certain images - trees, a hanging figure, a branch, fingertips, a briefcase - resurface, like apparitions.
Tree of Knowledge begins by circling around a potent, reoccurring image: the cutting of the limbs of a eucalyptus tree outside the poet's window. Echoes of the imagery of tree-cutting are refracted in an array of works of visual art, as this image becomes the locus from which the poems spiral out. As the book continues, we move from the personal to the historical, in a startling poem that takes the violent 1885 expulsion of Chinese Americans from Eureka as its subject. The poet then moves back to the ekphrastic, as the artist and mystic Hilma af Klint emerges as an interlocutor and 'fellow traveler' of sorts, sharing the poet's artistic and philosophical preoccupations: Af Klint becomes a model for a particular way of seeing and engaging with the world.
Evocative, intricate, and deeply considered, Tree of Knowledge is in conversation with themes of Chang's previous work, but also casts its roots simultaneously deeper and farther afield, in its brilliant meditations on art, language, selfhood, memory, and loss.
Sobre l'autor
Victoria Chang's last collection With My Back to the World won the Forward Prize for Poetry 2024. Her collection The Trees Witness Everything was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and the Guardian. Her collection Obit was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also longlisted for a National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chowdhury Prize in Literature. She serves as the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and as the Director of Poetry@Tech. Her poems have been translated into many languages including Italian, Chinese, Spanish, and Dutch.
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