Carolyn Forché, 6th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Carolyn Forché

Document Type

Featured Participant

Festival Date

10-6-1983

Location

Webb University Center; Kaufman Hall Auditorium

Author/Artist Bio

Since the 1976 publication of her first book of poems, Gathering the Tribes, Carolyn Forché has been a major new voice in American poetry. Her work as a journalist and human-rights investigator in Europe and Central America led to her second poetry collection, The Country Between Us, which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of 1981 and received the coveted Di Castagnola award from the Poetry Society of America. Jacobo Timerman wrote, "Latin America needs a poet to replace the man who represented in his writings the beauty, sufferings, fears and dreams of this continent: Pablo Neruda. Carolyn Forché is that voice." Irvin Ehrenpreis said, "I do not know another poet writing in English today whose work has the force and drama of Carolyn Forché's." Larry Levis observed, 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." Denise Levertov remarked, "Here's a poet who's doing what I want to do." On Thursday afternoon Forché will discuss poetry and answer questions from the audience. Her evening poetry reading will conclude the 1983 literary festival.

Description

Forché read on Thursday, October 6th, 1983 at 12:30 p.m. in Webb University Center and at 8:00 p.m. in Kaufman Hall Auditorium.

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