The Country Between Us
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Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché is the author of Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award; The Country Between Us, which received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Society of America; and The Angel of History, awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Centuly Poetry of Witness. Recently she was presented with the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation Award for Peace and Culture in Stockholm. She lives in Maryland with her husband and son.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5"There is nothing one man will not do to another." With all going on at our southern border, I felt I had to re-read Forche's poems about El Salvador written in 1978-80.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Carolyn Forche was a journalist for Amnesty International and a human rights advocate who spent much time in El Salvador in the ‘70s chronicling the war and the struggles of the people there. Her poetry often combines the personal with the political seamlessly and need several readings to be able to truly appreciate all she puts into her poems. This volume won the Lamont Poetry Prize in 1981. Forche is also the editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-century Poetry of Witness, an anthology of poetry of poems from every war in that century. Elena was a friend of Forche whose husband was a journalist who was critical of the government. One evening as the couple came home from a dinner celebrating their wedding anniversary there were government troops waiting for them to gun them down. She was wounded in the mouth and her husband was killed. Elena was scheduled to be executed but there were so many street demonstrations supporting her that she was allowed to go into exile..IN MEMORY OF ELENAWe spend our morning in the flower stalls countingthe dark tongues of bellsthat hang from ropes waitingfor the silence of the hour.We find a table, ask for paella, cold soup and wine, where a calmlight trembles years behind us.In Buenos Aries only threeyears ago, it was the last time his handslipped into her dress, with pearlscooling her throat and bells like these, chipping at the night—As she talks, the hollowclopping of a horse, the soundof bones touched together.The paella comes, a bed of riceand camarones, fingers and shells,the lips of those whose lipshave been removed, musselsthe soft blue of a leg socket.This is not paella, this is whathas become of those who remainedIn Buenos Aires. This is the ring of a rifle report on the stones, her hand over her mouth,her husband falling against her.These are the flowers we boughtthis morning, the dahlias tossed on his grave and bellswaiting with their tongues cut outfor this particular silence.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The poems about El Salvador were wrenching. Wonderful poems.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5[The Country Between Us] is a book of poetry about man's horrific inhumanity to man from El Salvador to Serbia and beyond, it's affect on the observer as well as the victim, and the impossibility of overcoming it. Much of the imagery was stunning and unique. Excellent but difficult to read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is a river of sadness and strength. Taking as a point of departure the struggles of Latin America, the poet manages to reveal the hurt without taking sides. Deeply political but not divisive.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The poems about El Salvador were wrenching. Wonderful poems.