Blue Hour: Poems

Author:   Carolyn Forche
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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9780060099138


Pages:   73
Publication Date:   16 March 2004
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Carolyn Forche
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Collins
ISBN:  

9780060099138


ISBN 10:   0060099135
Pages:   73
Publication Date:   16 March 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Again Carolyn Forche hovers above the lacerated landscape of history filling the holes 'between saying and said.' BLUE HOUR does not console but emboldens. The fear we share is never dodged. This singular voice is writ in bone, snow, coal, stone and sorrow. --C.D. Wright And now comes a stunning new work by Carolyn Forche, my hero, because not only does she write beautifully, she has fierce moral principles. ----Carolyn Kizer Forche, already a master of imagery, creates here a masterwork for the 21st century. --Jane Miller The long poem 'On Earth' immediately draws the reader's attention--it's such a mysterious catalogue of all the things we know and don't know: an uncanny mixture of peace, beauty and cruelty. If you ask 'which country is it?' the answer is 'this country is called earth. ----Adam Zagajewski To read these poems is an experience as calmly and restfully beautiful as looking at a group of related impressionist canvases, like those of Monet. Especially memorable for me are poems like 'Refuge' and above all, the long poem 'On Earth' ---- John Bayley Like the scatter from a fireworks explosion, Forche's images float on the currents of the reader's memory. --American Book Review A ferocious remembering in the face of death, in the face of life. --North American Review An eerily beautiful, bruised and persuasive book. --Los Angeles Times Book Review Resplendent and solemn ... takes readers to similar state of limbo, someplace between the conscious and the intuited. --Hartford Courant [An] austerely beautiful gathering of elegiac meditations ... Forche [is] a writer exquisitely attuned to the tenderness and awe, violence and grief inherent in human life. --Booklist BLUE HOUR blends domestic tenderness with philosophical reverie ... It is full of tiny startling detail ... celebrating the freedom of imagination and memory. --Financial Times Dense, lyrical, mysterious ... a poetic journey no reader should miss. --Library Journal Unflinching witness and eloquent mourner. --The New Yorker


Like the scatter from a fireworks explosion, Forche's images float on the currents of the reader's memory. --American Book Review


Resplendent and solemn ... takes readers to similar state of limbo, someplace between the conscious and the intuited. --Hartford Courant Dense, lyrical, mysterious ... a poetic journey no reader should miss. --Library Journal An eerily beautiful, bruised and persuasive book. --Los Angeles Times Book Review A ferocious remembering in the face of death, in the face of life. --North American Review Unflinching witness and eloquent mourner. --The New Yorker Like the scatter from a fireworks explosion, Forch 's images float on the currents of the reader's memory. --American Book Review


Dense, lyrical, mysterious ... a poetic journey no reader should miss. --Library Journal Resplendent and solemn ... takes readers to similar state of limbo, someplace between the conscious and the intuited. --Hartford Courant A ferocious remembering in the face of death, in the face of life. --North American Review An eerily beautiful, bruised and persuasive book. --Los Angeles Times Book Review Unflinching witness and eloquent mourner. --The New Yorker Like the scatter from a fireworks explosion, Forche's images float on the currents of the reader's memory. --American Book Review Forche, already a master of imagery, creates here a masterwork for the 21st century. --Jane Miller And now comes a stunning new work by Carolyn Forche, my hero, because not only does she write beautifully, she has fierce moral principles. ----Carolyn Kizer The long poem 'On Earth' immediately draws the reader's attention--it's such a mysterious catalogue of all the things we know and don't know: an uncanny mixture of peace, beauty and cruelty. If you ask 'which country is it?' the answer is 'this country is called earth. ----Adam Zagajewski [An] austerely beautiful gathering of elegiac meditations ... Forche [is] a writer exquisitely attuned to the tenderness and awe, violence and grief inherent in human life. --Booklist Again Carolyn Forche hovers above the lacerated landscape of history filling the holes 'between saying and said.' BLUE HOUR does not console but emboldens. The fear we share is never dodged. This singular voice is writ in bone, snow, coal, stone and sorrow. --C.D. Wright To read these poems is an experience as calmly and restfully beautiful as looking at a group of related impressionist canvases, like those of Monet. Especially memorable for me are poems like 'Refuge' and above all, the long poem 'On Earth' ---- John Bayley BLUE HOUR blends domestic tenderness with philosophical reverie ... It is full of tiny startling detail ... celebrating the freedom of imagination and memory. --Financial Times


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Carolyn Forch� is the author of Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award; The Country Between Us, which received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Society of America; and The Angel of History, awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Centuly Poetry of Witness. Recently she was presented with the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation Award for Peace and Culture in Stockholm. She lives in Maryland with her husband and son.

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