the colonel

by Carolyn Forché

Genres: Poetry

Unknown Binding

About the author

Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950. She studied at Michigan State University and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University. Forché is the author of four books of poetry: Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2004); The Angel of History (1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Country Between Us (1982), which received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Gathering the Tribes (1976), which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz. She is also the editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993). Among her translations are Mahmoud Darwish's Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems with Munir Akash (2003), Claribel Alegria's Flowers from the Volcano (1983), and Robert Desnos's Selected Poetry (with William Kulik, 1991). Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1992, she received the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum.

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Reviews

[Sue · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think the problem with many poems is that you need to know the background. This poem does not mean anything to me because I do not know who or what it is about. Having said that, I can still appreciate the violence within normal walls. And I like the last lines about the chopped off ears - "Some of the ears on the floor caught this scrap of his voice. Some of the ears on the floor were pressed to the ground."

[Daisy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh the imagery was manifique in laying out her message. Carolyn cooked!