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Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950. She studied at Michigan State University and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University. Forché is the author of four books of poetry: Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2004); The Angel of History (1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Country Between Us (1982), which received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Gathering the Tribes (1976), which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz. She is also the editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993). Among her translations are Mahmoud Darwish's Unfortunately, It Wa ...more

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	The Country Between Us 4.22 avg rating — 2,472 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance 4.46 avg rating — 1,570 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness 4.38 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Angel of History 4.03 avg rating — 630 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Hour 3.89 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gathering the Tribes 4.02 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Creative Nonfiction by Carolyn Forché (Goodreads Author), Associated Writing Programs, Philip Gerard 3.79 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Lateness of the World: Poems 4.07 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 by Carolyn Forché (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Duncan Wu (Editor) 4.46 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colors Come from God . . . Just Like Me! 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us

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“One can live without having survived”
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“the silence of God is God.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester

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Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood

by Drema Hall Berkheimer

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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

by Candice Millard

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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

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Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City

by Kate Winkler Dawson

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The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir

by Tara Clancy

5 votes, 9.4%

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

4 votes, 7.5%

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

by Carolyn Forché

3 votes, 5.7%

I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends

by Kelsey Miller

3 votes, 5.7%

The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

by Julie Yip-Williams

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