With My Back to the World Radical Trans Poetics

With My Back to the World Radical Trans PoeticsVictoria Chang A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit. Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square. With My Back to the World

is an alternative account of the first century of cinema according to the films watched by a constellation of its most notable stars shortly before (or at the time of) their deaths

Alix Chauvet

Kildare's network arch-rival

an hour can turn from something germinal to a quiet

that we were the ruin

Een oudere dichter blikt terug op zijn leven

maar geven ook blijk van een diep verlangen naar eenzaamheid

Die ervoer de dichter zelf zo sterk

absence and love

long distance relationships

eerie rhythms of a sitcom in which conflict never arises

Across her work