Reflection on Carolyn Forché and History
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There are other ways to keep up with the times than to scroll down the quantum leaps of tragedies that is the news and (social) media. Forché proves that. I stumbled on her poems In the Lateness of the World, like a tourist on a plaque in a lost byway. Which woke me enough to know I no longer wanted to be a tourist. Forché makes “to witness” an active verb, like carrying a message to save an army. Which is how the first marathon was run. Imagine carrying a boulder for forty years. The boulder is history. It slows you down. Her memoir says What You Have Heard is True. What have I heard? As…
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