In the Lateness of the World
In the Lateness of the World Carolyn Forch is one of America's most important contemporary poets - renowned as a 'poet of witness' - as well as an indefatigable human rights activist. Her…
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In the Lateness of the World
Carolyn Forch is one of America's most important contemporary poets - renowned as a 'poet of witness' - as well as an indefatigable human rights activist. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, enquiries and wonderments. Over four decades, she has crafted visionary work that has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader.
In the Lateness of the World is a dark book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. The poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through the aftermath of history.
Forch imagines 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
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