Description
Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitious and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems reflect the effects of such experience: the lines, and often the images within them, are fragmented discordant. But read together, these lines become a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings make to survive what is unsurvivable. As poets have always done, Forche attempts to give voice to the unutterable, using language to keep memory alive, relive history, and link the past with the future.
Author: Carolyn Forche
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 02/03/1995
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.11w x 0.31d
ISBN13: 9780060925840
ISBN10: 0060925841
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
- Poetry | Women Authors
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