| Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness Contributor(s): Forché, Carolyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393309762 ISBN-13: 9780393309768 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1993 Annotation: This landmark anthology takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: "In the dark times, will there be singing? /Yes, there will be singing./About the dark times". Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--this volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, a chorus of voices from dark times, giving testimony to the poetic imagination seared by the fire of human suffering. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 808.819 |
| LCCN: 92-26174 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.6" W x 8.9" (1.55 lbs) 816 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square. |
Contributor Bio(s): Forche, Carolyn: - Carolyn Forché, poet, translator, and activist, is professor of English at Georgetown University. She has published two award-winning volumes of poetry, Gathering the Tribes and The Country Between Us. In 1990 Ms. Fourché received a Lannan Literary Award, granted to poets and writers of literary excellence "whose work promotes a truer understanding of contemporary life." Her most recent volume of poetry is Blue Hour. |