Gathering the Tribes
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Carolyn Forché; Foreword by Stanley Kunitz
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"Forché is steeped in a sense of the ritual life of place and people that links the material of her Slovak heritage, the Southwest culture of Taos, the wilderness of the Washington coast and rural British Columbia. The resulting poetry has the strength of chant or incantation. Each word in each line is intense: words of physical presence (pine, mountain, moon, bread, blood) and physical act (chew, carry, work, rise). Emotion is tacit, spirituality is implicit, embedded in the objects of simple existence."—Library Journal
Publication Date: September 10, 1976