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Carolyn Forché's poetic career began when Ingenue magazine published her poem "Artisan Well" in October 1968. In January 1969 that magazine contained a feature article that Forché wrote ...
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Carolyn Forché's poetry of witness, which engenders human empathy, subverts the dominant American poetic since World War II, which generally cultivates individuation. From early in her career F...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kunitz
Kinship is the theme that preoccupies Carolyn Forché. Although she belongs to a generation that is reputed to be rootless and disaffiliated, you would never gue...
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Critical Essay by Wendy Knox
In Gathering the Tribes, Carolyn Forché gives us voices of people around her…. Her mode is generally narrative, slowly spinning out revelation by means of di...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth Rexroth
Carolyn Forché is beyond question the best woman poet to appear in the Yale Younger Poet series since Muriel Rukeyser, whom in a special way she somewhat resem...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Plumly
Carolyn Forché's hold on her material [in Gathering the Tribes] is ingratiating if sometimes tenuous. One wants the ambitions of her poems to be realized...
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Critical Essay by Claire Hahn
Audre Lorde and Carolyn Forché are both gifted poets endowed with clarity of inward vision and a willingness and power to project it with often devastating impact....
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Critical Essay by Paul Gray
Carolyn Forché paid extended visits to El Salvador, working as a journalist and human rights advocate. She could not have known that land would be Topic A in the U.S...
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Critical Essay by Joyce Carol Oates
Carolyn Forché, like Neruda, Philip Levine, Denise Levertov and others who have, in recent years, wed the "political" and the "personal,...
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Critical Essay by Katha Pollitt
Carolyn Forché's second book [The Country Between Us] is interesting both because Forché is a talented poet—her first book was a Yale Younge...
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Critical Essay by Rochelle Ratner
In her recent book of essays, Light Up the Cave, Denise Levertov speaks of the need, in the 1960s, to create a new form for political poetry since, in the past, it ha...
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Critical Essay by Larry Levis
What is it like to write about or to photograph a war that is going on now, that was going on last week, last year? In the post-Vietnam era, I believe that one of the mos...
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Critical Essay by Carolyn Forché
The year Franco died, I spent several months on Mallorca translating the poetry of Claribel Alegria, a Salvadorean in voluntary exile. During those months the a...
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Interview by Carolyn Forché with Jonathan Cott
Cott: Walt Whitman once wrote: "The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it." How do...
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Critical Review by Terence Diggory
The honors showered upon Carolyn Forché during her brief career so far do not compensate for the misunderstanding that has accompanied them. Following her deb...
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Michael Greer
In the four years since their publication, the poems of Carolyn Forché's The Country Between Us have been identified with a renewed debate concerning the claims, the merits...
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Interview by Carolyn Forché with Jill Taft-Kaufman
Taft-Kaufman: Carolyn, you described your original experience in El Salvador as having created a "focused obsession" for you. Ca...
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[Here, the critic offers a favorable review of The Angel of History.]
Though Forché's (The Country Between Us) previous books have been groundbreaking works of political and moral depth,...
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[In the following review, Walker favorably assesses The Angel of History, briefly comparing it to The Country between Us and noting Forché's focus on World War II, survival, and remembra...
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[In the following favorable review, Russell examines the themes and structure of The Angel of History.]
With her latest collection, The Angel of History, Carolyn Forché proves once again that s...
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[In the excerpt below, Bedient offers a favorable assessment of The Angel of History.]
Carolyn Forché's The Angel of History is instantly recognizable as a great book, the most humanitar...
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[In the excerpt below, Bogen extols Forché's ability to document historical atrocities, individual experience, and political vision in The Angel of History, noting that the book is a bre...
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[Salter Reynolds is the assistant book editor for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In the following essay, announcing that Forché is the recipient of the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Award for...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kunitz
