Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

Author:   Carolyn Forche
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
ISBN:  

9780393309768


Pages:   816
Publication Date:   17 May 1993
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Carolyn Forche
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780393309768


ISBN 10:   0393309762
Pages:   816
Publication Date:   17 May 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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From every continent comes the news that our age is an age of murder and repression on a scale unimagined before. And yet I can't peruse this book without marveling at what beauty these writers have made of the calamity called the Twentieth Century. I would not have thought a poetry anthology could be so stirring. --Arthur Miller


From every continent comes the news that our age is an age of murder and repression on a scale unimagined before. And yet I can't peruse this book without marveling at what beauty these writers have made of the calamity called the Twentieth Century. I would not have thought a poetry anthology could be so stirring. -- Arthur Miller


From every continent comes the news that our age is an age of murder and repression on a scale unimagined before. And yet I can't peruse this book without marveling at what beauty these writers have made of the calamity called the Twentieth Century. I would not have thought a poetry anthology could be so stirring.--Arthur Miller


Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok , but it can bear witness to brutality thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. Carolyn Fourche's Against Forgetting is itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice. It bears witness to the evil we would prefer to forget, but never can and never should. --Nelson Mandela


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"Carolyn Forch�, 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. Fourch� 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."

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