Gathering the Tribes

Author:   Carolyn Forche ,  Stanley Kunitz
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Volume:   Vol 71
ISBN:  

9780300019858


Pages:   80
Publication Date:   10 September 1976
Format:   Paperback
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Gathering the Tribes


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The language and images of Carolyn Forché's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that it is surprising to realize how many of her poems deal with uprootedness-hasty emigrations from Czechoslovakia and Kiev, the loss of grandparents and other elders, people leaving and being sent away. But this poetry is not a sentimental celebration of the goodness of nature, and harmony with the world is never something assumed. The harmony Forché seeks goes deeper than simple submission to natural processes or identification with an ethnic group, and it must be fought for with a tenuous faith, the balance that must be found between the ugliness, the harshness of her history-both natural and social-and its intense beauty, is what distinguishes Forché's poetry, gives it is depth and dimension.

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Author:   Carolyn Forche ,  Stanley Kunitz
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Volume:   Vol 71
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.091kg
ISBN:  

9780300019858


ISBN 10:   0300019858
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   10 September 1976
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Carolyn Forche's poems reach out in many directions for a gathering of tribes - to the Pueblo Indians she has lived among; to the ethnic wisdom of her Slovak grandmother, Anna, who is a powerful presence here; to Joey, the boy who left her for the seminary; and finally, through love-making, to a new affirmation of womanhood. Forche, who is also a linguist, uses words as organic entities, setting them out like root vegetables in short, stolid lines. And though Stanley Kunitz, in his introduction, calls her Kalaloch possibly the outstanding Sapphic poem of an era, she is not programmatic or stridently confessional but forthrightly earthy ( . . . . her long/hair wiped my legs, with women/there is sucking . . . I like that you/ cover your teeth ). And at her best, Forche combines a storyteller's timing with the pragmatism of a mystic, as when Burning the Tomato Worms becomes a kind of ceremony linking her own sexual initiation with a memorial for the grandmother who pulled babushkas and rosary beads/ On which she paid for all of us. . . She would take gladiolas to the priest/ Like sword sprouts they fumed near her bed. This year's Yale Younger Poet combines a distinctly individual voice with a passion for seeing beauty and ugliness as a whole vision. Her first volume justifies Kunitz' enthusiasm and announces a distinct new presence. (Kirkus Reviews)


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