Forche, Carolyn
The Country Between Us
- ISBN 13:
- 9781780373744
- author:
- Forche, Carolyn
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 64
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 13.8 centimetres (0.11 kg
- Genre:
- Poetry, General, ,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Carolyn Forché's The Country Between Us is a powerful and deeply personal collection of poetry that bears witness to her experiences in El Salvador during the late 1970s. While working with Archbishop Oscar Romero's church group, she documented killings and human rights abuses, finding solace in her poetry as a way to process what she saw. The book was initially met with resistance from publishers and critics in the US, who found her poems about torture, murder, and injustice uncomfortable. However, it went on to win immediate recognition upon its release in 1981, coinciding with growing public awareness of the conflict in El Salvador. The Country Between Us has since become a landmark work, selling tens of thousands of copies in the US and remaining in print. First published by Jonathan Cape in Britain in the 1980s, it was reissued by Bloodaxe Books to coincide with Forché's memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin, 2018). The Country Between Us has also been selected as the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets.
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