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Cathy Linh Che - Power of Poetry to Mend Assault Wound
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Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. On this episode we discuss her book, Split (Alice James Books). She is winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, the co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books), which will be published in May 2023, and the chaplet Zombie Apocalypse Now: The Walking Dead (Belladonna*). We chat about the impact that sexual assault has had on her family and work as well as the healing she has undertaken to work through her trauma.
Discussed on the show:
Split by Cathy Linh Che: https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/split
Kundiman.org: http://www.kundiman.org
Kundiman retreat: http://www.kundiman.org/retreat
Kundiman classes: http://www.kundiman.org/online-classes
The Body Keeps the Score: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313183/the-body-keeps-the-score-by-bessel-van-der-kolk-md/
A is for Asian American by Cathy Linh Che & Kyle Lucia Wu: https://www.powells.com/book/
Connect with Cathy:
Website: https://www.cathylinhche.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cathylinhche
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cathylinhche/
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