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1	Writing Creative Nonfiction more books like this by Carolyn Forche (Editor), Philip Gerard (Editor) Creative nonfiction titles are hot - with new books hitting the bestseller lists everyday. Writing Creative Nonfiction presents more than thirty essays on this hottest literary form. The impressive line up of some of the best teachers from the finest writing programs throughout the country includes Philip Lopate, William Least-Heat Moon, Diane ... see all copies from $5.34! new only from $7.21! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The country between us more books like this by Carolyn Forché "Here is a poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual and what is often called 'political' at the same time. This is a major new voice."--Margaret Atwood"Here is a poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual and what is often called 'political' at the same time. This is a major ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness more books like this by Carolyn Forche (Editor) 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, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Gathering the Tribes more books like this by Carolyn Forche The language and images of Carolyn Forche's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that it is surprising to realize how many of her poems deal with uprootedness - hasty emigrations from Czechoslovakia and Kiev, the loss of grandparents and other elders, people leaving and being ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Angel of History more books like this by Carolyn Forche New from award-winning poet Carolyn Forche is The Angel of History. Placed in the context of 20th century moral disasters, these poems are a meditation on memory and a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings make to survive what is unsurvivable. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Flowers from the Volcano more books like this by Claribel Alegria, Carolyn Forche (Translator) see all copies from $2.95! new only from $97.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Angel of History more books like this by Carolyn Froche, Carolyn Forche The long-awaited masterpiece from the award-winning poet and author of The Country Between Us is a powerful meditation on the horrors of war in our century. Forche renders the violence, pain, cruelty, and suffering inflicted on human beings by war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Hard Country more books like this by Sharon Doubiago (Afterword by) First published by West End Press in 1982, this book-length poem about a journey across America has been out of print for a decade but has maintained its underground reputation as a major response to the male epic consciousness of twentieth-century American poetry. In this political geography of the continents body, the land is corporeal, erotic ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Blue Hour more books like this by Carolyn Forche ""Blue Hour" is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth, ' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems in the book, especially 'Nocturne' and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Colors Come from God . . . Just Like Me! more books like this by Carolyn A Forche, Charles Cox (Illustrator) A young girl talks about the many things God created--and their colors. Each section ends with the affirmation "And God made me a beautiful brown!" Developed to help Forche's grandchild deal with the hurtful words spoken in a daycare center, the book's purpose is to help African American children develop a healthy racial self-esteem as they face ... see all copies from $8.07! new only from $8.90! \| SVS
11	Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poetry more books like this by Leilani Wright (Editor), James Cervantes (Editor), Carolyn Forche (Foreword by) Dream worlds, real worlds: this book ushers in an extraordinary collection of new work by nearly forty poets currently living and writing in Arizona. Brief introductions for each poet reveal that socially, geographically, and emotionally, they come from anywhere and everywhere. Here and together, however, their energy and synergy are shaping a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong more books like this by Kevin Bowen, Carolyn Forche (Foreword by) A Vietnam veteran and frequent visitor to the country after the war writes about the nightmare of those years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Bruise Theory more books like this by Natalie Kenvin, Carolyn Forche (Foreword by) Chosen by renowned poet Carolyn Forche as a finalist in the 1993 AWP Series in Poetry, Bruise Theory is Natalie Kenvin's debut poetry collection. Compact and powerful, her poems fly like small fists. They address emotional illness, mother-daughter relationships, friendship and erotic love, physical abuse, and the strength it takes to endure. These ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Blue Hour: Poems more books like this by Carolyn Forche Forché's fourth collection includes poems about her own childhood and that of her son, as well as less serene images of some of the traumas of the 20th century, such as Chernobyl. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $49.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers more books like this by Susan Meiselas (Editor), Carolyn Forche, Fae Rubenstein (Editor) see all copies from $20.00! signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Lives of Rain more books like this by Nathalie Handal, Carolyn Forche (Foreword by) Poems of displacement and uncertainty, moving continent to continent, giving voice to Palestinians of the diaspora. see all copies from $6.77! new only from $13.50!
17 view cover	The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos more books like this by William Kulif, Robert Desnos, Carolyn Forche (Translator) Poems selected to represent the wide range of work by Robert Desnos, one of the founding members of the Surrealist movement. Includes a biography of the poet and a consideration of the social and artistic context of his work. see all copies from $34.64! first editions
18	Cruelty; Killing Floor: Poems more books like this by Carolyn Forche, Ai see all copies from $6.00!
19 view cover	Autumn Sonata more books like this by Georg Trakl, Daniel Simko (Translator), Carolyn Forche (Introduction by) Georg Trakl's poems are considered some of the most difficult for any translator to tackle; his German is dense and sometimes almost impenetrable. Daniel Simko's collection "Autumn Sonata", has been lauded for the 'simplicity and directness' of its translations, accomplished with out sacrificing the drama of Trakl's rich imagery. Suffering from ... see all copies from $18.34! new only from $18.34!
20	El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers more books like this by Carolyn Forche see all copies from $20.69!
21	Joseph Wesner at Mid-Career by Carolyn Forche see all copies from $47.95!
22	Ploughshares Winter 1991-92 by Carolyn Forche (Editor) see all copies from $7.89!
23	Women in American labor history, 1825-1935 : an annotated bibliography more books like this by Martha Jane Soltow, Carolyn Forché, Murray Massre see all copies from $10.95! first editions
24	The colonel by Carolyn Forché, Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) see all copies from $90.00! signed copies \| first editions

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