With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang #Translation political and personal — spin

political and personal — spin and weave through Paula Meehan’s new collection of poems

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

too long delayed

now and then

Poetry Book Society Recommendation Translation Winter 2005

With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang #Translation political and personal — spin'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