Blue Hour (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Carolyn Forche
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: From the 1940’s to 2003
- Setting: France, the United States, and unspecified European countries
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Suffering, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, France or French people, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, Ghosts or apparitions, Native Americans or American Indians, Victims, Women, Spiritualism, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Soul
- Locales: France, United States
Blue Hour by celebrated poet Carolyn Forché clearly turns away from the directly political tone of her earlier works and toward the more intimately personal. Just as some of Forché’s critics took her to task for needlessly “poeticizing” political violence in her second collection, The Country Between Us (1981), some have lashed out at the seeming abandonment of her politically charged poetry. She is a poet who has unflinchingly held that “what matters is not whether a poem is political, but the quality of its engagement.” While Blue Hour is, in turns,...
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