About Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang’s first book of poetry, Circle (Southern Illinois, 2005), won the Crab Orchard Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review, Slate, New England Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is the editor of the anthology Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (Illinois, 2004).

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Planting Tulips

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They bend into each other’s stamens, tendrils leaning, sucking and bulging,
calyx swaying in blade, lamina, burning under a trusted sun.
Cottage Tulips, Single Earlies, Double Earlies, Darwins, Parrots.
Plant them in the fall to see their torsos rise in spring.

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