Barbie Chang So Much For Life Iduna Paalman

Iduna Paalman

Drawing on the devices and forms of poetry

Louise Glück’s thirteenth book is among her most haunting

notes explaining its literary and historical references

can go as a fellow traveler with social movements and revolutionary demands

Barbie Chang So Much For Life Iduna PaalmanVictoria Chang In her fourth collection, Victoria Chang is at her best, performing sharp language play and breathless turns in poems that ring vivid, humorous, and true. Barbie Chang is an energetic social commentary whose eponymous heroine is a perpetual outsider, failing at the impossible task of fitting in with the beautiful thin mothers at school who form a perfect circle. We follow Barbie Chang on romantic misadventures with Mr. Darcy and through