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Washington Square Press, 2025.
Cathy Linh Che’s Becoming Ghost magnifies how the golden shovel form both buries and unearths a poem’s roots. Sentences unfold down Che’s line breaks, generating shadow scripts and ghost dialogues in a language hidden “like gold poured into a molar or cotton gauze stuffed into a cheek.” These poems reconcile myth and history, inheritance and upheaval, reconfiguring family memoir as a vehicle for empathy, experimentation, and recovery. Becoming Ghost is a marvel of form and spirit.
Washington Square Press, 2025.
Cathy Linh Che’s Becoming Ghost magnifies how the golden shovel form both buries and unearths a poem’s roots. Sentences unfold down Che’s line breaks, generating shadow scripts and ghost dialogues in a language hidden “like gold poured into a molar or cotton gauze stuffed into a cheek.” These poems reconcile myth and history, inheritance and upheaval, reconfiguring family memoir as a vehicle for empathy, experimentation, and recovery. Becoming Ghost is a marvel of form and spirit.
