Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 58 Seiten)
Edition:
Centenary edition, 2019
ISBN:
9780300194302
Series Statement:
Yale series of younger poets volume 71
Content:
An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forché and the 71st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets The poems in Gathering the Tribes recount experiences from the author’s adolescence and young†‘adult life, closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body’s functioning. Many 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 and gives it its depth and dimension
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Burning the Tomato Worms -- Song Coming Toward Us -- The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit
Note:
restricted access online access with authorization star
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300246322
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Forché, Carolyn, 1950 - Gathering the tribes New Haven [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Pr., 1976 ISBN 0300019858
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300019831
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
DOI:
10.12987/9780300194302
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Author information:
Forché, Carolyn 1950-
