{"product_id":"book-18f1","title":"Otherwhere","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver half a century, Carolyn Forché has exemplified how a poet’s voice can cut through the cacophony of an age and speak to our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. \u003ci\u003eOtherwhere \u003c\/i\u003espans her groundbreaking career, including the poems crafted in her early twenties from \u003ci\u003eGathering the Tribes \u003c\/i\u003e(1976), a world of “horse-breath weather” and the whispering aspens of her grandmother’s Slovak; the “poetry of courage and compassion” (Margaret Atwood) in \u003ci\u003eThe Country Between Us \u003c\/i\u003e(1981); and the elegiac realm of \u003ci\u003eIn the Lateness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), with its bygone friends, besieged cities, and dreams of the displaced.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOtherwhere\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the finest poems of Forché’s body of work, selected by the poet herself, and includes a short new collection “If there is ink,” which lights a signal fire in a state of emergency. In these new poems, Forché sifts through the new ruins of the present, conjuring the early days of an emergency where people “pretend to live \/ as we have always lived,” and cautioning “There are no secrets to staying completely invisible so they are not included here.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As Hilton Als writes in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, “Toni Morrison once observed that there is no such thing as bigger than life: life \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e big. Forché, in her profoundly ambitious work, aims to capture that bigness, line by line.”","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":66557826531632,"sku":"1018f1","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook [BD]","offer_id":66557826564400,"sku":"BD18f1","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/18f1-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776358214","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-18f1","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}