Gathering the Tribes (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Carolyn Forche
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Memory, Sex or sexuality, Nature, Spiritual life or spirituality, Native Americans or American Indians, Women’s issues, Women, Death or dying, Legends, Grandparents or grandchildren, Rites or ceremonies, Life and death
Form and Content
In his introduction to Gathering the Tribes, Stanley Kunitz contends that Carolyn Forché’s first volume of poetry is a work preoccupied with the theme of kinship, and while this is certainly true, Forché’s vision is of a distinctly woman-centered kinship. In the poetic style that she has described as “first-person free verse lyric-narrative,” Forché writes a three-part sequence of poems exploring a woman’s connections with her ancestry, the land and its people, and her physical body. Forché opens the volume by invoking memories of her...
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