Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026

Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026 - Hardcover

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Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026 - Hardcover

Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026 - Hardcover

by Carolyn Forché
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by Carolyn Forché (Author)

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness.

Over half a century, Carolyn Forché has exemplified how a poet's voice can cut through the cacophony of an age and speak to our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. Otherwhere spans her groundbreaking career, including the poems crafted in her early twenties from Gathering the Tribes (1976), a world of "horse-breath weather" and the whispering aspens of her grandmother's language; the "poetry of courage and compassion" (Margaret Atwood) in The Country Between Us (1981) and the elegiac realm of In the Lateness of the World (2020), with its bygone friends, besieged cities, and dreams of the displaced.

Otherwhere gathers the finest poems of Forché's body of work, selected by the poet herself, and includes a short new collection, If there is ink, which lights a signal fire in a state of emergency. In these new poems, Forché sifts through the new ruins of the present, conjuring the early days of an emergency where people "pretend to live as we have always lived," and cautioning "There are no secrets to staying completely invisible, so they are not included here."

Throughout these poems of unparalleled moral conviction, there resounds a "sense of responsibility: to the fullness of lives unnecessarily [bound]; to poetry and its insistence on meaning; to attention and action, no matter the cost" (World Literature Today) that has defined Forché's work--an inimitable, monumental contribution to American letters.

Author Biography

Carolyn Forché is an American poet, translator, and memoirist. Her books of poetry are In the Lateness of the World, Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes. She has also published her memoir, What You Have Heard Is True. In 2013, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. She is a University Professor at Georgetown University. She lives in Maryland with her husband, photographer Harry Mattison.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.95 x 9.26 x 6.27 IN
Publication Date: September 08, 2026
ISBN9781668218242
Author Carolyn Forché
PublisherScribner Book Company
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, translator, and activist. Her books of poetry are In the Lateness of the World, Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes. In 2013, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. She is a University Professor at Georgetown University. Forché lives in Maryland with her husband, the photographer Harry Mattison.

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