TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forche,Carolyn
TI  - In the lateness of the world
SN  - 9780525560401
AV  - PS3556.O68 F673 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Museum of stones --; The boatman --; Water crisis --; Report from an Island --; The last puppet --; The lightkeeper --; The crossing --; Exile --; Fisherman --; For Ilya at Tsarkoye Selo --; The lost suitcase --; Last bridge --; Elegy for an unknown poet --; Letter to a city under siege --; Travel papers --; The refuge of art --; A room --; The ghost of heaven --; Ashes to Guazapa --; Hue: from a notebook --; Morning on the island --; A bridge --; The end of something --; Early life --; Tapestry --; Visitation --; In time of war --; Lost poem --; Charmolypi --; Souffrance --; Sanctuary --; Uninhabited --; Clouds --; Passage --; Light of sleep --; Theologos --; Mourning --; Transport --; Early confession --; Toward the end --; What comes
N2  - "Over four decades, Carolyn Forche'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 poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through the aftermath of history. Forche envisions a place where "you could see / everything at once . . . every moment you have lived or place you have been." 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"--Provided by publisher
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