PositivePorter House ReviewThese poems’ generous, meticulous record of grieving is inseparable from Chang’s retooling of poetic form and language ... The stalemate between words and the ineffable is at no point fully resolved in Obit. Chang is too honest a writer to declare a false victory, and the real fascination of this book is in slight shifts that tip the contest first one way, then another. The smallest components of language are examined for how they make and unmake meaning ... As a lyrical case study of a person coming to accept the hard terms of such love, Obit offers both instruction and solace.
