Martha Stoddard’s Reviews > What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance > Status Update

Carolyn Forché is an astounding writer as well as a luminous and generous soul. This renowned poet—writing prose to engage extraordinary experiences—makes a book that is distinctive and extraordinary and yet calls every cell of the reader’s body to attention in a personal and ethical way. “The Colonel” is a precursor/seed. You may need to take breaks as you read this book; there were no breaks for those who lived it.