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In her fifth collection, Guggenheim Fellowship winner Chang (The Boss) uses an unusual subject—obituaries—to shed light on what qualities make for a good life as well as a passable death. In predominantly page-length prose poems, her obits address the speaker's parents but also cover privacy, language, and the future as well as memory, hope, and even obsession: "Sadness—dies while the man across the street trims the hedges and I can see my children doing ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More