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OverviewBearing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carolyn ForchePublisher: WW Norton & Co Imprint: WW Norton & Co Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.703kg ISBN: 9780393309768ISBN 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 The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsFrom 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 Author Information"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." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |