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In the lateness of the world /

Over four decades, Carolyn Forché's visionary work has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to one another. Her first...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Forché, Carolyn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, [2020]
Subjects:
American poetry > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Museum of stones
  • The boatman
  • Water crisis
  • Report from an island
  • The last puppet
  • The lightkeeper
  • The crossing
  • Exile
  • Fisherman
  • For Ilya at Tsarskoye Selo
  • The lost suitcase
  • Last bridge
  • Elegy for an unknown poet
  • Letter to a city under siege
  • Travel papers
  • The refuge of art
  • A room
  • The ghost of heaven
  • Ashes to Guazapa
  • Hue: from a notebook
  • Morning on the island
  • A bridge
  • The end of something
  • Early life
  • Tapestry
  • Visitation
  • In time of war
  • Lost poem
  • Charmolypi
  • Souffrance
  • Sanctuary
  • Uninhabited
  • Clouds
  • Passage
  • Light of sleep
  • Theologos
  • Mourning
  • Transport
  • Early confession
  • Toward the end
  • What comes.