Against Forgetting
Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square.
Forche, Carolyn: - Carolyn Forché, poet, translator, and activist, is professor of English at Georgetown University. She has published two award-winning volumes of poetry, Gathering the Tribes and The Country Between Us. In 1990 Ms. Fourché received a Lannan Literary Award, granted to poets and writers of literary excellence "whose work promotes a truer understanding of contemporary life." Her most recent volume of poetry is Blue Hour.
ISBN/UPC:
9780393309768
Product:
Book, Paperback
Title:
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
Contributors
- Editor: Carolyn Forche
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company, 1993
Pages:
816
Languages:
English
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