Studying Obituaries So I Can Write My Mother’s

Studying Obituaries So I Can Write My Mother’s

Formalizing Grief: On Victoria Chang’s Obit by Robin Arble The genius in Victoria Chang’s Obit lies in her turning the obituary into a poetic form. All her other feats—her dazzling flashes of language, her similes and images that feel realer than life—flow from this decision. Her first move is finding a form to turn and return to: Chang is, among many things, a poet’s poet, and she knows how to turn limitation into invention. But her real accomp…