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Title: The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche ISBN: 0-06-090926-9 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 April, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Personal is Political without being partisan
Comment: I've read someone dismiss and misread Carolyn Forché's second collection of poetry: that it's a partisan piece that took advantage of the situation in El Salvador in the 80s, that its politics won over its poetry. I'll admit that Forché's writing is political, but then any writing is. Coming from the very personal sphere of experience, Forché's pieces work on the tension of distance and territory that the persona(s) is/are put into, without coming off as sensational. She does not, as some people might think, exploit or exoticize the landscape. The Personal is Political without needing to be partisan and Forché handles this well, which is I guess, why a lot of people find this collection of hers most accessible. The favorite poem which is widely anthologized is the prose piece "The Colonel." But the best poem for me in the collection is still "For the Stranger".
Rating: 5
Summary: read and reread
Comment: Stunning, deep, beautiful and nerve wracking. I've carried this book with me for weeks now, rereading poems and trying to memorize parts of them. There aren't enough stars in the sky to rate this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Forché sees evil & names it
Comment: Forché's poems of El Salvador in the late '70s/early '80s, in the first half of this book, could as well be written about Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Chechnya, or any of another dozen places that are sites of contemporary atrocity. And the U.S.: where all of us, so many of us good people, yes, good people, live on the uppermost levels of a structure of corruption and shame, which we fail, in our stubborn blindness, to recognize: "...I go mad, for example, / in the Safeway, at the many heads / of lettuce, papayas and sugar, pineapples / and coffee, especially the coffee" ("Return," 19). Forché's purpose is not to give us the guilts, nor to turn us into evolutionaries, nor to congratulate herself as someone who is "aware," but to bring witness of objective conditions of evil in which we, as American citizens and consumers, participate.
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Title: Gathering the Tribes by Carolyn Forche ISBN: 0300019858 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1976 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness by Carolyn Forche ISBN: 0393309762 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Angel of History by Carolyn Forche ISBN: 0060925841 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Blue Hour : Poems by Carolyn Forche ISBN: 0060099127 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright by Anne Wright, Leslie Silko ISBN: 0915308746 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: April, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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