With My Back to the World - Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection 2024

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 engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract modern artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang''s new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Chang, Chang Victoria
• Publisher: Corsair
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9781472158215
• ISBN: 978-1-4721-5821-5
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, POETRY / American / General, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Modern and contemporary poetry / poems