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An edition of Gathering the Tribes (1976)

Gathering the Tribes

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The language and images of Carolyn Forché’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 sent away. But this poetry is not a sentimental celebration of the goodness of nature, and harmony with the world is never something assumed. The harmony Forché seeks goes deeper than simple submission to natural processes or identification with an ethnic group, and it must be fought for with a tenuous faith, the balance that must be found between the ugliness, the harshness of her history—both natural and social—and its intense beauty, is what distinguishes Forché’s poetry, gives it is depth and dimension.

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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
58

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Subjects
Poetry, American poetry, Women authors, American women authors, Poetry (poetic works by one author)

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1976, Yale University Press
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Edition Notes

Published in
New Haven, USA
Series
Yale series of younger poets, v. 71.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.5/4
Library of Congress
PS3556.O68 G3, PS3566.L27

Contributors

Foreword
Stanley Kunitz

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 58 p. ;
Number of pages
58

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OL5206674M
Internet Archive
gatheringtribes00forc
ISBN 10
0300019831, 0300019858
ISBN 13
9780300019834
LCCN
75032672
OCLC/WorldCat
421699014, 2129495
Library Thing
206987
Goodreads
1484759
393729

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