Carolyn Forché (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The early life of Carolyn Louise Forché (fohr-SHAY) in a working-class immigrant family in Detroit colored her feelings about her work as a writer, and it supplied her with themes for her first volume of poetry, Gathering the Tribes. That volume was done as part of her work for the M.F.A. degree she received from Bowling Green State University; it later was selected for the Yale Younger Poets Award. Forché’s topics in that collection portray the world from which she came. In the introduction to the volume, the poet Stanley Kunitz discusses the kinship theme.
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