Against Forgetting - by Carolyn Forché (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In a class by itself, edited and and introduced with precise passion and Olympian breadth, <i>Against Forgetting</i> encapsulates both the horrors of our century and the power of musical language to make a place to live, breathe, hope, love.--Calvin Bedient<br><br>Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a <i>sjambok</i>, but it can bear witness to brutality--thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. Carolyn Fourché's <i>Against Forgetting</i> is itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice. It bears witness to the evil we would prefer to forget, but never can--and never should.--Nelson Mandela<br><br>From every continent comes the news that our age is an age of murder and repression on a scale unimagined before. And yet I can't peruse this book without marveling at what beauty these writers have made of the calamity called the Twentieth Century. I would not have thought a poetry anthology could be so stirring.--Arthur Miller<br>
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