Bibliograph

In the lateness of the world, Carolyn Forché

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In the lateness of the world, Carolyn Forché

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

In the lateness of the world

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1105152199

Responsibility statement

Carolyn Forché

Summary

"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 new collection in seventeen years, In the Lateness of the World is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders, but also between the present and the past, life and death. The poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through the aftermath of history. Forché envisions a place where "you could see / everything at once . . . every moment you have lived or place you have been." The world here seems to be steadily vanishing, but in the moments before the uncertain end, an illumination arrives and "there is nothing / that cannot be seen." In the Lateness of the World is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today"--, Provided by publisher

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