Split Linh Che CathyPaperback
Split Linh Che CathyPaperback 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. Cathy Linh…
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Split Linh Che CathyPaperback
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. Cathy Linh Che's collection Split accomplishes this nearly impossible challenge with uncommon grace and power. 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.
Each poem unwinds the cataclysm of personal wounding by making itself irresistibly beautiful." --LA ReviewIn 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,