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Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split (Alice James Books), 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.
Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split (Alice James Books), 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.
On the boat we flee the hordes—
in the rear view,
zombies eat up
the left-behind.
The Americans left
three years prior.
Now tanks roll into the capital.
They raise a new flag.
We are cast into a film
about our own apocalypse.