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A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery.
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche’s The Colonel, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
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Carolyn Forche
Carolyn Forche’s The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, travelling around a country erupting into civil war. Briefly available from…
Carolyn Forche is one of America’s most important contemporary poets. Her later collections are visionary works drawing on work written over many years. In the Lateness of the World is…
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[The author’s] first new collection in seventeen years … is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders, but also between the present and the past, life…
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, ’…
Placed in the context of 20th-century moral disaster, Forche’s third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable.
Describes the author’s deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country’s history…
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A young girl’s adventure teaches her that she is God’s creation!
A Study Guide for Carolyn Forche’s The Garden Shukkei-En, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Anthology celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King receiving an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in November 1967, six months before his assassination in April…
Fernando Valverde
America an intense book of poetic witness and mines the tension between our best and our worst.
Translated by acclaimed activist and writer Carolyn Forche
Extremely relevant and current topic
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Nikola Madzirov
U.S. debut of major new European poet introduced by Carolyn Forche with blurbs from Li-Young Lee, Tomaz Salamun, Adam Zagajewski.
Janet Levine
An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forche and the 71st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets
The…
This anthology. edited by Carolyn Forch? and Ilya Kaminsky, is sure to become the classic text marking not only one of the darkest periods in Ukrainian history, but also a…
Celebrates the artistic and cultural forces in the East. This collection includes 400 voices that represent an artistic movement that challenges traditions, broadening our notion of contemporary literature.
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Nazim Hikmet
The definitive selection by the first and foremost modern Turkish poet.
Lasse Soederberg
In The Forbidden Door, poets Carolyn Forche and Lars Gustaf Andersson masterfully translate the selected poems of Swedish poet Lasse Soederberg in one of his first substantial volumes in the…
Mahmoud Darwish
The author is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and beloved as the voice of his people. A…
