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Carolyn Forch is one of Americas most important contemporary poets renowned as a poet of witness as well as an indefatigable human rights activist. Over four decades, she has crafted visionary work that has reinvigorated poetry's power to awa...

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""Blue Hour" is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth, ' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, i...

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New from award-winning poet Carolyn Forche is The Angel of History. Placed in the context of 20th century moral disasters, these poems are a meditation on memory and a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings mak...

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"e;Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form o...

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"e;Poetry of consummate beauty . . . reminiscent of Eliot's 'The Waste Land'"e; from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster-war, gen...

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Carolyn Forch is 27 when a mysterious stranger calling himself Leonel appears on her doorstep, having driven direct from El Salvador. A friend has heard rumours about who he might be - a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary,...

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'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) 'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' - The New York Times 'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' - San Francisco Chronicle ...

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Speaks of personal Slavic origins, the culture of American Indians, racial bonds, and other topics related to themes of kinship and self-identity.

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An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forché and the 71st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets   The poems in Gathering the Tribes recount experiences from the a...

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An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forch and the 71st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets The poems in Gathering the Tribes recount experiences from the authors adolesce...

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A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurancewhile their authors awai...

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"Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time." --Margaret Atwood, via Twitter The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary me...

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“An undisputed literary event.” — NPRA new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force from one of our country's most celebrated poetsOver four decades, Carolyn Forché's visionary work has reinvigorated poetry'...

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"An undisputed literary event." - NPR A new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force from one of our country's most celebrated poets Over four decades, Carolyn Forché's visionary work has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken ...

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American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured decades in the penal system before becoming a renowned poet and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents, with brutal honest...

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One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred different points of view. Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is right now—full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on ev...

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A young girl's adventure teaches her that she is God's creation!

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Carolyn Forche is one of America's most important contemporary poets - renowned as a 'poet of witness' - as well as an indefatigable human rights activist. Over four decades, she has crafted visionary work that has reinvigorated poetry's power to ...

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Carolyn Forche's The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, when she travelled around a country erupting into civil war. Documenting killings and other brutal human rights abuses, while working alongside...

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Carolyn Forche's The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, when she travelled around a country erupting into civil war. Documenting killings and other brutal human rights abuses, while working alongside...

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When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said: 'There are three urgent and indeed great problems tha...

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The Angel of History bears witness to the moral disasters of our times: war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb. The book is a meditation on memory how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems are fragmented, discordant, reflecting the ef...

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Carolyn Forch is one of Americas most important contemporary poets. Blue Hour is a visionary book, and includes On Earth, a extraordinary long poem, a meditation on human existence and life on earth. Jane Miller called Blue Hour a masterwork for t...

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Esta es la historia del acto radical de empatia de una mujer y su trascendental encuentro con un hombre enigmatico que cambiara el curso de su vida. Carolyn Forche, una de las poetas mas aclamadas de su generacion, tenia veintisiete anos cuando el...

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Carolyn Forché (f. 1950) har kallats den stora amerikanska samvetsrösten och har i över fyra decennier varit en av de mest tongivande och inflytelserika diktarna inom den amerikanska poesin. Med sin diktning har Forché bevittnat och dokumenterat b...

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Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture. "Our anthology begins: Let...

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