{"product_id":"becoming-ghost-poetry","title":"Becoming Ghost: Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e2025 National Book Award Finalist. Ms. Magazine's 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 Coppola's Apocalypse Now. The follow-up to her acclaimed poetry debut \u003cem\u003eSplit\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBecoming Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e documents Cathy Linh Che's parents' experiences as refugees who escaped the Vietnam War and then were cast as extras in Francis Ford Coppola's film \u003cem\u003eApocalypse Now\u003c\/em\u003e, placing them at the margins of their own story. The poetry collection uses persona, speculation, and the golden shovel form as a means of moving Vietnamese voices from the periphery to the center. The speaker's disownment raises questions about the challenges of using parents as poetic subjects, telling familial stories to a broader public, and the meaning of forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cathy Linh Che","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43797493219370,"sku":"9781668088920","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/becoming-ghost-poetry-7978253.jpg?v=1762250598","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/becoming-ghost-poetry","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}