![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dashing and mesmerizing, he talks with ferocious intensity about his country, El Salvador, its impending civil war, and how, as a poet and an American, Forché can help the resistance in its fight against state terror. A summer in Mallorca with a friend and her mother, the Central American poet Claribel Alegría, led to the unexpected and fateful appearance of Alegría’s mysterious cousin, Leonel Gómez Vides, at Forché’s door in California. In this galvanizing memoir, she recounts her political awakening under fire with a poet’s lyrical acuity and a storyteller’s drama. Poet Forché, an advocate for “poetry of witness,” has compiled two genre-defining anthologies: Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) and Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500–2001 (2014). ![]()
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