The Angel of History
"Carolyn Forche is known as one of our most important contemporary poets.
Work Information
"Carolyn Forche is known as one of our most important contemporary poets.
"Carolyn Forche is known as one of our most important contemporary poets. Her first book, Gathering the Tribes, won the Yale Younger Poets Award. Her second, The Country Between Us, won both the Lamont Poetry Award and an award from the Poetry Society of America. Although The Angel of History is a departure from her previous books, it contains echoes of both earlier volumes." "Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster - war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb - Forche's third collection of poems is a meditation on memory, specifically on how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems reflect the effects of such experience: the lines, and often the images within them, are fragmented, discordant. But read together, these lines become a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings make to survive what is unsurvivable." "These are personal poems, poems startling in their honesty and humility, poems that bear witness rather than explain or resolve. Carolyn Forche describes her book in a note to the reader: "The Angel of History is not about experiences. It is for me the opening of a wound, the muffling and silence of a decade, and it is also a gathering of utterances that have lifted away from the earth and wrapped it in a weather of risen words. These utterances issue from my own encounter with the events of this century but do not represent 'it.' The first-person, free-verse, lyric-narrative poem of my earlier years has given way to a work which has desired its own bodying forth: polyphonic, broken, haunted, and in ruins, with no possibility of restoration."" "An ambitious and compelling collection, The Angel of History may also be groundbreaking. As poets have always done, Forche attempts to give voice to the unutterable, using language to keep memory alive, relive history, make tracks in an empty field, and link the past with the future."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Published
- 1994-03-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780060170783
- ISBN-10
- 0060170786
- Price
- 17936 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
Poems deal with the concept of time, destiny, and the influence of the past
In addition to her two earlier collections of poetry, Gathering the Tribes and The Country Between Us , Carolyn Forché has published most recently the anthology that she edited entitled Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness. She lives in Maryland with her husband and son.
Reviews
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Carolyn Forche, a rare writer exploring into her own genuine territory, crawling through it in a passion to finger the real mysterium living in the sub-text psychic metaview. Mixed in results but who isn't, or wouldn't be, if we were to make a like journey?
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Rereading Forche's Angel of History years later it still sings as it did when it first came out. Maybe a tiny bit out of tune in some ways. But Forche's poems have a way of staying with one for a long time. I took away a star because I loved it more when it first came out then I did on a recent read. My fault, not the poet's. Give it back the star if you want. When I read it again, I no doubt will.
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Versand hat sehr lange gedauert (fast drei Wochen, ohne Sendungsverfolgung). Gedichte an sich nur etwas für Poesie-Liebhaber, die sich ausführlicher damit beschäftigen möchten. Leider (aus Umweltsicht) große Platz-/Papierverschwendung, da die Seiten sehr wenig bedruckt sind. Hängt natürlich mit der Wirkung der Gedichte zusammen, aber trotzdem nicht ganz durchdacht (als Entschuldigung, das Buch ist schon alt).
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Not so much into poetry I saw the author speak on a special about the Statue of Liberty & felt like giving one a try. Worth it.
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This book is full of symbolism, and while the syntax and rhythm are just a bit hard to follow, I love the meaning behind the words. An excellent book, but not for you if you're not up for reading between the lines to find the true meaning of it all.