An Evening with Victoria Chang, author of "Obit"

12316 Euclid Avenue,Cleveland OH 44106

16 September, 2022

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Join the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, The Cleveland Foundation and Lake View Cemetery as we celebrate in the cemetery's Community Mausoleum for reading and book signing of Victoria Chang's award-winning poetry collection, Obit. Chang won the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her fifth collection of poetry, Obit. It was also finalist for a National Book Critics Award and listed as a best book of 2020 by Time magazine, the Boston Globe and NPR. Anisfield-Wolf juror Rita Dove responded strongly to Obit: “At first one might think: What a gimmick, to force each poem into the narrow column of a newspaper obit! How can these compressed language gobbets be called poems, anyway? And yet after the requisite announcements (name of the deceased, time, cause of death), each obit plunges to the source of its bereavement, skewering as it darkens, until I’m left speechless, bereft, in Keats’ ‘vale of soul-making.’” Facemasks are required at all Cleveland Book Week events while not eating and drinking. About Lakeview Cemetery: Lake View Cemetery is committed to providing interment services to all races and religions while preserving its grounds and status as a nationally recognized landmark of historical significance. CLEVELAND BOOK WEEK: Visit anisfield-wolf.org/bookweek for a full schedule of September events featuring our other 2022 winners. Cleveland Book Week is presented in partnership with the Great Lakes African American Writers Conference and Literary Cleveland.