![]() ![]() In Edwidge Danticat’s The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (Graywolf, 2017), she describes the dreams she had while her mother was dying from cancer. The form is simultaneously constrained while also holding the keen of raw grief. Obit, as the name suggests, is written in the style of newspaper obituaries and includes obits to “civility,” “approval,” and “language.” It is a spare and stunning book. ![]() ![]() After his funeral, when his junk mail kept arriving at my house, when I saw his facial features forged in the sharp bones of my own, I turned to the book Chang wrote in the years after she lost her mother to pulmonary fibrosis and while her father’s dementia continued to progress. It was the only book that made sense to me. I READ VICTORIA CHANG’S poetry collection Obit (Copper Canyon, 2020) after the death of my father. ![]()
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