Blue Hour

Name: Blue Hour
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ISBN: 9780060099138

by Carolyn Forché

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"Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth, ' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems in the book, especially 'Nocturne' and 'Blue Hour, ' are lyric recoveries of the act of remembering, though the objects of memory seem to us vivid and irretrievable, the rage to summon and cling at once fierce and distracted.

"The voice we hear in Blue Hour is a voice both very young and very old. It belongs to someone who has seen everything and who strives imperfectly, desperately, to be equal to what she has seen. The hunger to know is matched here by a desire to be new, totally without cynicism, open to the shocks of experience as if perpetually for the first time, though unillusioned, wise beyond any possible taint of a false or assumed innocence."

-- Robert Boyers

Publisher:: Harper Perennial
ISBN:: 9780060099138
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 73
Authors:: Carolyn Forché
Published Date:: 2004-03-16
Language:: English

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About Carolyn Forché

Born in Detroit on April 28, 1950, Carolyn Forché studied at Michigan State University and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University and a PhD from Newcastle University. A poet, memoirist, translator, and editor, she is the author of Gathering the Tribes (Yale University Press, 1976), selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets; The Country Between Us (HarperCollins, 1982); The Angel of History (HarperCollins, 1994), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and In the Lateness of the World (Penguin, 2020), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the American Book Award. She edited Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (W. W. Norton, 1993). In 2017 she received a Windham-Campbell Prize. Forché serves as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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