Against Forgetting : Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

Carolyn Forche
W. W. Norton & Company
 9780393309768
0-393-30976-2

This landmark anthology takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: "In the dark times, will there be singing? /Yes, there will be singing./About the dark times". Bearing witness to extremity--whether.

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of war, torture, exile, or repression--this volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, a chorus of voices from dark times, giving testimony to the poetic imagination seared by the fire of human suffering.