Tree of Knowledge
$39.00
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
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 refract…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472160300 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472160304 |
| Author: | Victoria Chang |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 481g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 158mm x 18mm |
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Chang changes the way readers see art, the world, and themselves in this contemplative epic that rivals the major works of Wallace Stevens and A. R. Ammons * Library Journal, Starred Review *
About The Author
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. Her other books include The Trees Witness Everything, Dear Memory, and OBIT.
OBIT was named a TIME Magazine, NPR, Publisher’s Weekly, and New York Times Book of the Year. It 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 is the Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and the Director of Poetry@Tech.
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