Blue Hour by Carolyn Forche Read Free Book Online

is endless. Yet in its power to recall and to memorialize, elegy also effaces time and reinvests loss, the lost, with life. It is a form of overcoming, essential to our knowing of, and dwelling in, the present, and to our becoming human. As
Blue Hour
demonstrates with such startling range of invention, Carolyn Forché is one of the contemporary masters of that form, that act.” —Michael Palmer
    “An eerily beautiful, bruised, and persuasive book.” —
Los Angeles Times Book Review
    ANGEL OF HISTORY
ISBN 0-06-092584-1 (paperback)
WINNER OF THE
LOS ANGELES TIMES
BOOK PRIZE
    Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster—war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb—Forché’s ambitions and compelling collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems reflect the effects of such experience: the lines, and often the images within them, are fragmented discordant. But read together, these lines become a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings make to survive what is unsurvivable.
    THE COUNTRY BETWEEN US
ISBN 0-06-090926-9 (paperback)
LAMONT POETRY SELECTION
    The book opens with a series of poems about El Salvador, where Forché worked as a journalist and was closely involved with the political struggle in that tortured country in the late 1970s. Forché’s other poems also tend to be personal, immediate, and moving. Perhaps the final effect of her poetry is the image of a sensitive, brave, and engaged young woman who has made her life a journey. She has already traveled to many places, as these poems indicate, but beyond that is the sense of someone who is, in Ignazio Silone’s words, coming from far and going far.
    “Here is a poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual.” —Margaret Atwood
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Copyright
    A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers.
    BLUE HOUR . Copyright © 2003 by Carolyn Forché. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    EPub Edition © JUNE 2010 ISBN: 978-0-062-00423-9
    First Perennial edition published 2004.
    The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Forché, Carolyn.
Blue Hour / by Carolyn Forché.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-009912-7
I. Title.
PS3556.O68 B58 2003
811′.54—dc21 2002027270
    ISBN 0-06-009913-5 (pbk.)
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