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The Angel of History
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The Angel of History
Author(s): Carolyn Forche
Review(s):
“A dark, richly textured, complicated world...that great rarity, an altogether new thing.”
“A difficult book to put down, or to forget...Forche proves once again that socially conscious poetry is not a contradiction in terms.”
“A dark, richly textured, complicated work...[The Angel of History] is that great rarity, an altogether new thing.”
“I don’t think I have ever come across a poem of such length that is nevertheless so beautifully transparent and haunting.”
“Remarkable. . . . Poetry of consummate beauty...reminiscent of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land.’”
“The Angel of History is instantly recognizable as a great book, the most humanitarian and aesthetically ‘inevitable’ response to a half century of atrocities that has yet been written in English.”
“The poignant cri de couer of this singular work most affect all who have an integrity still possible in this painfully despairing time.”
ISBN: 9780060925840
Author(s): Carolyn Forche
Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitious and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems reflect the effects of such experience: the lines, and often the images within them, are fragmented discordant. But read together, these lines become a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings make to survive what is unsurvivable. As poets have always done, Forche attempts to give voice to the unutterable, using language to keep memory alive, relive history, and link the past with the future.
Review(s):
“A dark, richly textured, complicated world...that great rarity, an altogether new thing.”
“A difficult book to put down, or to forget...Forche proves once again that socially conscious poetry is not a contradiction in terms.”
“A dark, richly textured, complicated work...[The Angel of History] is that great rarity, an altogether new thing.”
“I don’t think I have ever come across a poem of such length that is nevertheless so beautifully transparent and haunting.”
“Remarkable. . . . Poetry of consummate beauty...reminiscent of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land.’”
“The Angel of History is instantly recognizable as a great book, the most humanitarian and aesthetically ‘inevitable’ response to a half century of atrocities that has yet been written in English.”
“The poignant cri de couer of this singular work most affect all who have an integrity still possible in this painfully despairing time.”
ISBN: 9780060925840