Kamnolom duš

by Carolyn Forché, Kristina Kočan (Translator)

Ustvarjalnost Carolyn Forché močno zaznamuje njena humanitarna izkušnja, saj že več kot štiri desetletja s svojimi pesmimi budi zaspanega, v udobju živečega bralca, pri čemer se močno naslanja na pričevanja in izkušnje drugih. Njena poezija pričevanja, razpeta med grozotami Auschwitza in prebežniki na reki Rio Grande, intenzivno in iskreno razpira bolečino in trpljenje, zato so jo številni kritiki imenovali za politično pesnico, ker je natančna opazovalka nasilja in groze časa.

Pesnica vztrajno opominja na nujnost strpnih medsebojnih odnosov. Izbor njene poezije, prek katerega bodo bralci lahko spoznali ustvarjalni prerez cenjene ameriške pesnice, je pripravila in prevedla Kristina Kočan. Večina pesmi v izboru je iz pesniške zbirke Zamujanje sveta (2020), za katero je bila avtorica nominirana za Pulitzerjevo nagrado. Za slovensko izdajo bo pesnica napisala tudi avtopoetični esej.

Genres: Poetry

222 pages, Hardcover

Published August 6, 2022

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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