"Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutalitythereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. Carolyn Fourché's Against Forgetting is itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice. It bears witness to the evil we would prefer to forget, but never canand never should."Nelson Mandela
"In a class by itself, edited and and introduced with precise passion and Olympian breadth, Against Forgetting encapsulates both the horrors of our century and the power of musical language to make a place to live, breathe, hope, love."Calvin Bedient
"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
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"Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutalitythereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. Carolyn Fourché's Against Forgetting is itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice. It bears witness to the evil we would prefer to forget, but never canand never should."Nelson Mandela
"In a class by itself, edited and and introduced with precise passion and Olympian breadth, Against Forgetting encapsulates both the horrors of our century and the power of musical language to make a place to live, breathe, hope, love."Calvin Bedient
"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
Imprint | W W Norton & Co Inc |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | May 1993 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | May 1993 |
Editors | Carolyn Forche |
Dimensions | 229 x 143 x 35mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 812 |
Edition | New |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-30976-8 |
Barcode | 9780393309768 |
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LSN | 0-393-30976-2 |