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Ghost of

by Diana Khoi Nguyen

Poems shaped by absence and memory

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner of the Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize

    The book is described as the winner of Omnidawn's poetry book contest/prize.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Poems shaped by absence and memory

In *Ghost Of*, Diana Khoi Nguyen works with photographs left by her brother, who cut himself out of them before his death. The images become a point of contact with what remains: family members arranged around an empty space, the physical trace of absence, and memories reaching across time and distance. Described as a mourning song rather than an effort to dispel grief, the collection attends to connections with loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. Its subject and visual point of departure bring family photographs into conversation with loss and remembrance.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary poetry engaging with grief and family loss.
  • Readers drawn to poetry that works with photographs and visual absence.
  • Readers seeking poetry addressing memory, ancestry, and connection across time.

Themes

Grief and mourningFamily and lossPhotography and absenceMemory and ancestry

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Book overview

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.

Ghost Of was selected by Terrance Hayes to win Omnidawn's Open Poetry Book Contest. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award and L.A. Times Book Prize.
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