The book opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where ForchÉ worked as a journalist and was closely involved with the political struggle in that tortured country in the late 1970's. ForchÉ's other poems also tend to be personal, immediate, and moving. Perhaps the final effect of her poetry is the image of a sensitive, brave, and engaged young woman who has made her life a journey. She has already traveled to many places, as these poems indicate, but beyond that is the sense of someone who is, in Ignazio Silone's words, coming from far and going far.

The Country Between Us

Carolyn Forché

Harper&Row

Poems deal with the concept of time, destiny, and the influence of the past

The Angel of History

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

HARPER/COLLINS

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Gathering the Tribes

History

Americas

Yale

The language and images of Carolyn Forché’s poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body’s functioning, that it is surprising to realize how many of her poems deal with uprootedness―hasty emigrations from Czechoslovakia and Kiev, the loss of grandparents and other elders, people leaving and being sent away. But this poetry is not a sentimental celebration of the goodness of nature, and harmony with the world is never something assumed. The harmony Forché seeks goes deeper than simple submission to natural processes or identification with an ethnic group, and it must be fought for with a tenuous faith, the balance that must be found between the ugliness, the harshness of her history―both natural and social―and its intense beauty, is what distinguishes Forché’s poetry, gives it is depth and dimension.

Gathering the Tribes (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

Yale University Press

The history of the political turmoil in El Salvador from the coup d'etat in 1979 to the present is traced in photographs and accompanying text

El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative

Writing Creative Nonfiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs

Philip Gerard

Reference

Bloodaxe Books

The Angel of History - Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry

History & Criticism

Open City is a rare contemporary phenomenon: a literary journal that gets people talking about literature, with contributions from a dynamic mix of prominent writers, undiscovered aspirants, and lost treasures by writers from past eras. From Edvard Munch's journals to Terry Southern's screenplays to Rick Moody's poetry to Michael Cunningham's essays to Mary Gaitskill's short stories, Open City features an exciting range of talents, with an edgy style and wit not to be found in any other literary journal. Volume Number 17 contains stories by Jack Walls, Adrian Dannatt, and Siobhan Reagan; poetry by Nathaniel Bellows, Heidi Kujac, and Daniel Nester; and art by Matthew Higgs, Delia Brown, and Kerry Tribe. "Open City showcases the literature of tomorrow today." -- Los Angeles Times

Open City No. 17, Summer 2003 (Open City, 17)

C.K. Williams

Chuck Kinder

Mark Jude Poirer

Literary

Grove Press, Open City Books

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