Split by Linh Che, Cathy
Split by Linh Che, Cathy

Split

Split crosses borders, exposing truths and dreams, violations of body and mind, aligning them until the deep...
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Author: Cathy Linh Che
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Language: English
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Split by Linh Che, Cathy

Split

CHF 21.19
Split by Linh Che, Cathy

Split

CHF 21.19
Author: Cathy Linh Che
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Split crosses borders, exposing truths and dreams, violations of body and mind, aligning them until the deep push-pull of silence and song become a bridge. And here we cross over into a landscape where beauty interrogates, and we encounter a voice that refuses to let us off the hook.--Yusef Komunyakaa


"Perhaps the writer's most difficult task is to render the catastrophic linked non-stories that comprise transgenerational trauma. Cathy Linh Che's collection Split accomplishes this nearly impossible challenge with uncommon grace and power. Each poem unwinds the cataclysm of personal wounding by making itself irresistibly beautiful." --LA Review


In this stunning debut, we follow one woman's profoundly personal account of sexual violence against the backdrop of cultural conflict deftly illustrated through her parents' experiences of the Vietnam War, immigration, and its aftermath. By looking closely at landscape and psyche, Split explores what happens when deep trauma occurs and seeks to understand what it means to finally become whole.

Pomegranate


I open my chest and birds flock out.
In my mother's garden, the roses flare
toward the sun, but I am an arrow

pointing back.
I am Persephone,
a virgin abducted.

In the Underworld,
I starve a season
while the world wilts

into the ghost
of a summer backyard.
My hunger open and raw.

I lay next to a man
who did not love me&emdash;
my body a performance,

his body a single eye--
a director watching an actress
commanding her

to scintillate.

I was the clumsy acrobat.
When he came, I split open
like a pomegranate

and ate six of my own ruddy seeds.

I was the whipping boy.
Thorny, barbed wire
wound around a muscular heart.


Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American poet from Los Angeles, CA. She has received awards from The Asian American Literary Review, The Center for Book Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace Residency, and Poets & Writers. She is a founding editor of Paperbag.




Author: Cathy Linh Che
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 05/06/2014
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781938584053


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/24/2014
Library Journal 04/15/2014 pg. 85

About the Author
Cathy Linh Che is a poet from Los Angeles, CA. She has received scholarships and fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, Poets & Writers, Inc., and Poets House. She is currently coeditor of an anthology called "Inheriting the War" and a founding editor of "Paperbag." She lives and teaches in Brooklyn.
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