Against forgetting: Twentieth-century poetry of witness - Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
Carolyn Forche
W.W. Norton (1993)
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Anthology
Jews, Woman
Hardcover 0393033724
eng
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LoC Classification PN6101.A32 1993
Dewey 808.81/9358
Edition 1st ed.
Nationality Assorted
Cover Price $35.00
No. of Pages 812
Height x Width 9.3 x 6.0  inch
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Newman 1292.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [763]-783) and index.

This landmark anthology takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: "In the dark times, will there be singing? /Yes, there will be singing./About the dark times." Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--this volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, a chorus of voices from dark times, giving testimony to the poetic imagination seared by the fire of human suffering.

she had personal experince of the Salvadoran Civil War

Forché invented the term "documentary poem" for "The Colonel." This alternative form works partly because she sparingly employs traditional poetic forms as touchstones within it and partly because its seeming "artlessness" elicits belief from her readers.