The Angel of History (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Carolyn Forche
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence, Meditation
- Subjects: History, Europe or Europeans, 1940’s, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, War, Death or dying, Holocaust, Jewish, Israel or Israelis, Judaism, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Middle East, Genocide
Combining the political with the personal—or, as the poet herself contends, creating work that addresses “public concerns, the public self in the world”—has always been Carolyn Forché’s forte. While her first volume of verse, Gathering the Tribes (1975), chronicles the author’s experiences and epiphanies, both private and public, as an adolescent and young adult, her second book, The Country Between Us (1981), powerfully demonstrates Forché’s evolving political consciousness and connection to the larger external world around her. It is in this latter...
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