In the Lateness of the World: Poems by Carolyn Forché

In the Lateness of the World: Poems

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In the Lateness of the World: Poems by Carolyn Forché

Penguin Books

In the Lateness of the World: Poems

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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY
2021 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER

"An undisputed literary event." --NPR

"History--with its construction and its destruction--is at the heart of In the Lateness of the World. . . . In [it] one feels the poet cresting a wave--a new wave that will crash onto new lands and unexplored territories." --Hilton Als, The New Yorker

Over four decades, Carolyn Forché's visionary work has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to one another.

Her first new collection in seventeen years, In the Lateness of the World is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death. The world here seems to be steadily vanishing, but in the moments before the uncertain end, an illumination arrives and "there is nothing that cannot be seen." In the Lateness of the World is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today.
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780525560425
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Carolyn Forché
Published Date:
2021-03-09
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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