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.
In a class by itself, edited and and introduced with precise
passion and Olympian breadth, Against Forgetting encapsulates both
the horrors of our century and the power of musical language to
make a place to live, breathe, hope, love.--Calvin Bedient
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear
witness to brutality--thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.
Carolyn Fourché's Against Forgetting is itself a blow against
tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice. It bears witness to
the evil we would prefer to forget, but never can--and never
should.--Nelson Mandela
In a class by itself, edited and and introduced with precise
passion and Olympian breadth, Against Forgetting
encapsulates both the horrors of our century and the power of
musical language to make a place to live, breathe, hope,
love.--Calvin Bedient
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can
bear witness to brutality--thereby cultivating a flower in a
graveyard. Carolyn Fourche's Against Forgetting is itself a
blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice. It
bears witness to the evil we would prefer to forget, but never
can--and never should.--Nelson Mandela
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