Victoria K Chang

Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets

In Mentor and Muse, a collection of twenty-nine insightful essays by some of today’s leading poetic minds, editors Blas Falconer, Beth Martinelli, and Helena Mesa have brought together an illuminating anthology that draws upon both established and emerging poets to create a one-of-a-kind resource a...

The Boss (McSweeney's Poetry Series)

Written in a breathless kind of fury,” the poems in award-winning poet Victoria Chang’s virtuosic third collection The Boss dance across the page with the brutal power and incandescent beauty of spring lightning. Obsessive, brilliant, linguistically playfulthe mesmerizing world of The Boss is as per...

Kenyon Review Winter 2011 (The Kenyon Review)

The Winter 2011 issue of The Kenyon Review features the winners of the 2010 Short Fiction Contest; fiction by Harriet Levin and Scott Russell Sanders; a new essay by Roger Rosenblatt; and poems by Ira Sadoff, Peter Campion, Rosanna Warren, Victoria Chang, Jane Hirshfield, Melissa Kwasny, Franz Wrigh...

Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation

This exciting anthology of work by up-and-coming writers is the first to profile a new generation of Asian American poets. Building on the legacy of now-canonized poets, such as Li-Young Lee, Cathy Song, and Garrett Hongo, who were the first to achieve widespread recognition in the American literary...

Salvinia Molesta (The VQR Poetry Series)

Victoria Chang's collection takes its title from what many call "the worst weed in the world," a plant so rapidly and uncontrollably invasive that it is illegal to sell or possess in the United States. Chang explores this image of vitality and evil in three thematically grouped sections focusing on ...

Circle (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry)

Taking its concept of concentricity from the eponymous Ralph Waldo Emerson essay, Circle, the first collection from Victoria Chang, adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history. These lyrical, narrative, and hybrid poems trace the spiral trajectory of womanhood and growth and plot the...

Is Mommy?

In this irreverent, hilarious, and charming picture book, award-winning poet Victoria Chang and celebrated artist Marla Frazee show that all toddlers love their mommies—no matter what.Is Mommy tall or short? Short! Is Mommy fun or boring? Boring! In this joyous ode to hardworking mothers everywhere—...

Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation

Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation

Circle