{"product_id":"dear-memory-letters-on-writing-silence-and-grief-paperback","title":"Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Victoria Chang\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Milkweed Editions (2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Groundbreaking . . . Chang's lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family's time capsule and an artist's timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem.\" —NPR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNow in paperback, from the poet who “resurrects mediums” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Victoria Chang, memory “isn’t something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally.” It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly and in the silences of her father. They are whittled and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license, a letter, a visa petition, a photograph. And, just as often, they are built on questions that can no longer be answered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDear Memory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is not a transcription but a process of shaping and being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history, what emerges is poetry. In letters to family, past teachers, fellow poets, and to the imagination itself, Victoria Chang offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44203065835619,"sku":"1571311882","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/81eONHAtXCL._SL1500.jpg?v=1779482866","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/dear-memory-letters-on-writing-silence-and-grief-paperback","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}