Things That No Longer Delight Me

By: Chang, Leslie C.

Book Overview

Things That No Longer Delight Me is a collection of poems about family and memory. This book is filled with objects. The author writes:

I like objects for company,

to decorate the plainest spaces, decorum
and
I amass details,
jade bracelet, her animal-print
dresses, an oval coral cameo.

How do objects counter loneliness, she asks, and speak to us of how to behave?

In Things That No Longer Delight Me, lyric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082323200X
• ISBN13: 9780823232000
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.1"