Things That No Longer Delight Me Chang Eady Paperback John Wiley & Sons

Things That No Longer Delight MeAuthor(s): Leslie C. Chang, Cornelius Eady\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823232000, 978-0823232000\nSynopsis\nThings That No Longer Delight Me is a collection of poems about family and memory. This book is filled with objects. The author writes:\n I like objects for company,\n to decorate the plainest spaces, decorum\n and\n I amass details,\njade bracelet, her animal-print\n dresses, an oval coral cameo.\n How do objects counter loneliness, she asks, and speak to us of how to behave?\n In Things That No Longer Delight Me, lyric is driven by a compulsion or need to collect, in order to make sense of the past and stay connected to it.\n And what if that connection were to be lost? Confronting loss, the book pieces together a family history from stories fragmented and overheard. It asks: What is hearsay and what is history? It seeks to embody story, or historical de.