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Becoming Ghost by Cathy Lin CheMs. Magazines Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025 The long awaited sophomore poetry collection by award winning writer Cathy Linh Che, on familial estrangement, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now. The follow up to her acclaimed poetry debut Split, Becoming Ghost documents Cathy Linh Ches parents experiences as refugees who escaped the Vietnam War and then were cast as extras in Francis Ford Coppolas film Apocalypse Now, placing them at

York St John University

it is the half-winged bird who escapes the factory farm

influenced by storytelling traditions

both lived and inherited

that I was not rich or poor

a place wherever “memory takes mercy on me

Fifty years after the March on the Pentagon

where they reluctantly build a life with their three children

memories of her grandfather and

Andres Cordoba

With open eyes

New York and Dalian-but each place just reminds the reader of what's missing