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27 produkter
Blue Hour
Poems
E-bok, 2010
91 kr
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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, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. …
Angel of History
E-bok, 2010
91 kr
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"Poetry of consummate beauty . . . reminiscent of Eliot''s ''The Waste Land''" from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster—war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb—Forché''s ambitious and …
What You Have Heard Is True
A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
E-bok, 2019
108 kr
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Carolyn Forché 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, a small coffee farmer - but nobody seems to know …
What You Have Heard Is True
A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
Häftad, 2020
165 kr
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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 ChronicleAn electrifying memoir set in the Salvadoran Civil War:the true story of a young poet …
Gathering the Tribes
Häftad, 2019
533 kr
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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 author’s adolescence and young‑adult life, closely bound to the …
Poetry of Witness
The Tradition in English, 1500-2001
Häftad, 2014
333 kr
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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 endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the …
In the Lateness of the World
Poems
2021
231 kr
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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY 2021 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER “An undisputed literary event.” —NPR “History—with its construction and its destruction—is at the heart of In the Lateness of the World . . . . In [it] one feels the poet cresting a wave—a new wave that will crash onto …
Otherwhere
New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026
Inbunden, 2026
239 kr
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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness. Over half a century, Carolyn Forch has exemplified how a poets voice can cut …
Otherwhere
New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026
E-bok, 2026
199 kr
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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness.Over half a century, Carolyn Forch has exemplified how a poets voice can cut …
In the Lateness of the World
E-bok, 2020
183 kr
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Carolyn Forché 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 awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have …
Country Between Us
Häftad, 2019
139 kr
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Carolyn Forché’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 Archbishop Oscar Romero’s church group, she found …
Country Between Us
E-bok, 2019
167 kr
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Carolyn Forché’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 Archbishop Oscar Romero’s church group, she found …
Mighty Stream
Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King
Av Carolyn, Forché, Carolyn Forche m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
172 kr
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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 that we face today...That is the problem of racism, the …
Mighty Stream
Poems in celebration of Martin Luther King
E-bok, 2017
187 kr
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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 that we face today…That is the problem of racism, the …
Otherwhere
New & Selected Poems 1976–2026
Häftad, 2026
217 kr
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Carolyn Forché is one of America’s most important contemporary poets – renowned as a ‘poet of witness’ – as well as an indefatigable human rights activist. Over five decades, she has crafted visionary work that has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have …
Otherwhere
New & Selected Poems 1976-2026
E-bok, 2026
188 kr
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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 five decades, she has crafted visionary work that has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been …
Angel of History
Häftad, 1994
164 kr
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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 effects of such experience, but forming a haunting …
Blue Hour
Häftad, 2003
164 kr
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Carolyn Forché is one of America’s 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 the 21st century’. John Bayley said that reading …
In the Lateness of the World
Häftad, 2020
152 kr
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Carolyn Forché 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 awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have …
Lo que han oído es cierto
Testimonio y resistencia
E-bok, 2020
126 kr
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Esta es la historia del acto radical de empatía de una mujer y su trascendental encuentro con un hombre enigmático que cambiará el curso de su vida.Carolyn Forché, una de las poetas más aclamadas de su generación, tenía veintisiete años cuando el misterioso desconocido apareció en su puerta. …
Mot slutet
Häftad, 2020
238 kr
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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 bland annat konflikterna i El Salvador vilket har …
In the Hour of War
Poetry from Ukraine
Av Carolyn Forché, Ilya Kaminsky
Häftad, 2023
258 kr
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