Vintage DB 103: Jennifer Chang’s “Love After Love,” DB 17
Today’s Vintage DB is especially great for those readers who don’t “get” poetry, as well as those who love to analyze and delve deeper into poetic works. After reading Jennifer Chang’s gorgeous poem, you can also see how it’s broken down and explained by author Lisa Russ Spaar, who’s book The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry, was published by Drunken Boat Media in 2013, and hence featured in DB 17, Summer 2013. Both Chang’s poem and Spaar’s notes are valuable additions to your store of poetic knowledge, so enjoy!
“…I gather leaf-fall
the dried-out catalpa
pods and once loved him
the mountain orchard
the honeylight the last
lowing of wind before
dusk…”
Jennifer Chang is a poet, scholar, editor, essayist, and a professor of English and creative writing at George Washington University. She has been recognized by Virginia Quarterly Review’s Poetry Series and was a finalist in the Shenandoah/ Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. Chang was originally published as a writer in 2008 by the University of Georgia Press with her first book The History of Anonymity, a collection of lyrical poems that was an inaugural selection for the Virginia Quarterly Review’s. Jennifer has also begun to work on a second collection of poems, titled Some Say The Lark, forthcoming from Alice Jame Books this year. To read more of Chang’s poetry and other works, you check out her Poetry Foundation page.
To learn more about The Hide-and-Seek Muse and its author click here
Click here to read “Love After Love” and its interpretation by Lisa Russ Spaar
