{"product_id":"split-paperback","title":"Split - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCathy Linh Che\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSplit\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Perhaps the writer's most difficult task is to render the catastrophic linked non-stories that comprise transgenerational trauma. Cathy Linh Che's collection \u003ci\u003eSplit\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eSplit\u003c\/i\u003e explores what happens when deep trauma occurs and seeks to understand what it means to finally become whole.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePomegranate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI open my chest and birds flock out.\u003cbr\u003eIn my mother's garden, the roses flare\u003cbr\u003etoward the sun, but I am an arrow \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epointing back.\u003cbr\u003eI am Persephone, \u003cbr\u003ea virgin abducted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the Underworld, \u003cbr\u003eI starve a season\u003cbr\u003ewhile the world wilts \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003einto the ghost\u003cbr\u003eof a summer backyard.\u003cbr\u003eMy hunger open and raw. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI lay next to a man\u003cbr\u003ewho did not love me\u0026amp;emdash;\u003cbr\u003emy body a performance, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ehis body a single eye--\u003cbr\u003ea director watching an actress\u003cbr\u003ecommanding her \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eto scintillate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI was the clumsy acrobat.\u003cbr\u003eWhen he came, I split open\u003cbr\u003elike a pomegranate \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand ate six of my own ruddy seeds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI was the whipping boy.\u003cbr\u003eThorny, barbed wire\u003cbr\u003ewound around a muscular heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCathy Linh Che\u003c\/b\u003e is a Vietnamese American poet from Los Angeles, CA. She has received awards from \u003ci\u003eThe Asian American Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, The Center for Book Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's \u003ci\u003eWorkspace\u003c\/i\u003e Residency, and \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a founding editor of \u003ci\u003ePaperbag.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCathy 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 \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692955635775,"sku":"9781938584053","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/92399eb77cb6b3c028b5d179df1e86f8.webp?v=1764997223","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/split-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}