A review of Diana Khoi Nguyen's 'Ghost Of'
Part archive, part elegy, Diana Khoi Nguyen’s debut collection of poetry, Ghost Of, presents the haunting portrait of a grieving family set against a backdrop of intergenerational trauma. Written four years after the poet’s brother took his own life, Nguyen’s poems register this loss as it is refracted through the story of her parents’ immigration to the US as refugees in the wake of the Vietnam War.
John Richetti performs Andrew Marvell
John Richetti visited PennSound’s studios the other day to record some poems of John Milton (in addition to large chunks of Paradise Lost, which he had already recorded) and also to create a new Andrew Marvell page. Here are the poems he chose: