Huge congratulations to the Detroit-born, California-based Victoria Chang whose winning collection With My Back to the World is inspired by the celebrated abstract modern artist Agnes Martin, as well as feminism, depression and grief. Chang's poetry opens up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Strikingly original and fluidly strange, this is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen. Victoria Chang has written seven books of poetry and previously won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
