Ghost of

Nguyen, Diana Khoi 1985- (author.).

Summary: Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. By working with, in, and around the photographs that her brother left behind (from which he cut himself out before his death), Nguyen wrestles with what remains: memory, physical voids, and her family captured around an empty space.

Record details

ISBN: 1632430525
ISBN: 9781632430526
Physical Description: 83 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
print
Publisher: Oakland, California : Omnidawn Publishing, 2018.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

A bird in Chile, and elsewhere -- Overture -- Triptych -- I keep getting things wrong -- A necessary death in broad daylight -- Gyotaku -- As from the corpse, no door -- Gyotaku -- Family ties -- The exodus -- Triptych -- The birdhouse in the jungle -- Triptych -- Grief logic -- Gyotaku -- A woman may not be a safe place -- Triptych -- Gyotaku -- An empty house is a debt -- Ghost of -- Gyotaku -- Time is filled with beginners -- Future self -- The dictator -- Reprise -- Coda -- Triptych.