“My heart is small & I want it, like a star, to collapse –”
— Cathy Linh Che, from “San Francisco Poems or Letters to Jack,” Split
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“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
— John Updike, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories
“I’ve polished this anger and now it’s a knife.”
— Cathy Linh Che, from “Go Forget Your Father,” published in Poetry
in the end, you might say,
This is myself
still unknown, still a mystery.
— Linda Hogan, from “Inside,” Rounding the Human Corners