The Country Between Us
The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche. 1981 Harper & Row, later printing. Wear to cover, pages in good condition. Blurbed by Margaret Atwood, "Here is poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual and what is often called 'political' at the same time." Forche is known for coining the term "poetry of witness."
"We have, each of us, nothing.
We will give it to each other."
The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche. 1981 Harper & Row, later printing. Wear to cover, pages in good condition. Blurbed by Margaret Atwood, "Here is poetry of courage and passion, which manages to be tender and achingly sensual and what is often called 'political' at the same time." Forche is known for coining the term "poetry of witness."
"We have, each of us, nothing.
We will give it to each other."