{"product_id":"otherwhere-new-and-selected-poems-1976-2026-9781668218242","title":"Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver 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. \u003ci\u003eOtherwhere \u003c\/i\u003espans her groundbreaking career, including the poems crafted in her early twenties from \u003ci\u003eGathering the Tribes \u003c\/i\u003e(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 \u003ci\u003eThe Country Between Us \u003c\/i\u003e(1981) and the elegiac realm of \u003ci\u003eIn the Lateness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), with its bygone friends, besieged cities, and dreams of the displaced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eOtherwhere\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the finest poems of Forché's body of work, selected by the poet herself, and includes a short new collection, \u003ci\u003eIf there is ink\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\" (\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e) that has defined Forché's work--an inimitable, monumental contribution to American letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Forché\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.27w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668218242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarolyn Forché is an American poet, translator, and memoirist. Her books of poetry are\u003ci\u003e In the Lateness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlue Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Angel of History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Country Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGathering the Tribes\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also published her memoir, \u003ci\u003eWhat You Have Heard Is True\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Carolyn Forch\u0026#195;\u0026#169; \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48912943677597,"sku":"9781668218242","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_890a24ba-5019-49a6-9456-cfe6b8c1c9f1.jpg?v=1789548340","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/otherwhere-new-and-selected-poems-1976-2026-9781668218242","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}