The Country Between Us
"Here is a poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual and what is often called 'political' at the same time. This is a major new voice."  --Margaret Atwood"Forché's subject, El Salvador is one that could have been easily sentimentalized or sensationalized by a lesser poet. And yet it is spoken of here with honesty and tenderness, even amid its tortures. For these poems are not 'made up' at all, but come from the complexity and more of human experience." --Larry Levis"Here's a poet who doing what I want to do, what I want to see all of us poets doing in this time without any close parallels or precedents in history: she is creating poems in which there is no seam between personal and political, lyrical and engaged. And she's doing it magnificently, with intelligence and musicality, with passion and precision." --Denise Levertov"I don not know another poet writing English today whose work has the force and drama of Carolyn Forché's. I do not know one whose work is more steadily absorbing." --Irvin Ehrenpreis"Latin America needs a poet to replace the man who represented in his writings the beauty, suffering, fears and dreams of this continent: Pablo Neruda, Carolyn Forché is that voice." --Jacobo Timerman