{"product_id":"the-angel-of-history","title":"The Angel of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. First edition (stated). Large octavo in white DJ, 84 pages; 25 cm. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gentle and faint rubbing to corners, bright pages in tight binding, extremely gentle rubbing to DJ spine head, very light soiling to DJ, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(-) DJ. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060170786\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut of ptint. Signed by author. American poetry -- 20th century. Carolyn Forche is known as one of our most important contemporary poets. Her first book, Gathering the Tribes, won the Yale Younger Poets Award. Her second, The Country Between Us, won both the Lamont Poetry Award and an award from the Poetry Society of America. Although The Angel of History is a departure from her previous books, it contains echoes of both earlier volumes. Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster - war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb - Forche's third collection of poems is a meditation on memory, specifically on 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. These are personal poems, poems startling in their honesty and humility, poems that bear witness rather than explain or resolve. Carolyn Forche describes her book in a note to the reader: \"The Angel of History is not about experiences. It is for me the opening of a wound, the muffling and silence of a decade, and it is also a gathering of utterances that have lifted away from the earth and wrapped it in a weather of risen words. These utterances issue from my own encounter with the events of this century but do not represent 'it.' The first-person, free-verse, lyric-narrative poem of my earlier years has given way to a work which has desired its own bodying forth: polyphonic, broken, haunted, and in ruins, with no possibility of restoration.\" An ambitious and compelling collection, The Angel of History may also be groundbreaking. As poets have always done, Forche attempts to give voice to the unutterable, using language to keep memory alive, relive history, make tracks in an empty field, and link the past with the future. Contents: Part I. The Angel of History -- Part II. The Notebook of Uprising -- Part III. The Recording Angel -- Part IV. The Garden Shukkei-en -- The Testimony of Light -- Part V. Book Codes: I -- Book Codes: II -- Book Codes: III.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Forche, Carolyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46054998343938,"sku":"88903.0","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/holder_9_9bf08a03-11b8-44c6-8a69-bd4d6b4665f5.jpg?v=1744052700","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/the-angel-of-history","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}