Gathering the Tribes by Carolyn Forché

Gathering the Tribes

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Gathering the Tribes

Yale University Press

Gathering the Tribes

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 An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forché and the 71st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets

The poems in Gathering the Tribes recount experiences from the author's adolescence and young-adult life, closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning. Many deal with uprootedness--hasty emigrations from Czechoslovakia and Kiev, the loss of grandparents and other elders, people leaving and being sent away. But this poetry is not a sentimental celebration of the goodness of nature and harmony with the world is never something assumed. The harmony Forché seeks goes deeper than simple submission to natural processes or identification with an ethnic group, and it must be fought for with a tenuous faith. The balance that must be found between the ugliness, the harshness of her history--both natural and social--and its intense beauty, is what distinguishes Forché's poetry and gives it its depth and dimension.
Book Details
Publisher:
Yale University Press
ISBN:
9780300246322
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
80
Authors:
Carolyn Forché
Published Date:
2019-10-01
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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