With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang #Translation now and then

now and then

Rather than lamenting the impossibility of reproducing any language’s unique knots of form and content in translation

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With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang #Translation now and then'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful. A marvel of a collection that engages the eye and mind as much as the ear and heart' Raymond Antrobus 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