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Gathering the tribes. /
An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forché and the 71st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets The poems in Gathering the Tribes recount experiences from the author's adolescence and young†'adult life, closely bound...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1976.
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| Colección: | Yale series of younger poets ;
v. 71. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forché and the 71st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets The poems in Gathering the Tribes recount experiences from the author's adolescence and young†'adult life, closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning. Many deal with uprootedness-hasty emigrations from Czechoslovakia and Kiev, the loss of grandparents and other elders, people leaving and being sent away. But this poetry is not a sentimental celebration of the goodness of nature and harmony with the world is never something assumed. The harmony Forché seeks goes deeper than simple submission to natural processes or identification with an ethnic group, and it must be fought for with a tenuous faith. The balance that must be found between the ugliness, the harshness of her history-both natural and social-and its intense beauty, is what distinguishes Forché's poetry and gives it its depth and dimension. |
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| Notas: | Preliminaries omitted. Volume 71 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 58 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0300019831 9780300019834 0300019858 9780300019858 9780300194302 0300194307 |