![]() In February, I spoke to Forché about her work and career in poetry and politics. The book, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award, is now out in paperback, and Forché’s first poetry collection in seventeen years, In the Lateness of the World, was published in March. More recently, she wrote a memoir of her political education during those years, which takes its title from the first line of that poem: What You Have Heard Is True. ![]() Her now legendary poem “The Colonel” describes a harrowing dinner with a Salvadoran military officer. government was playing in the country’s civil war. In the 1980s, she toured extensively in the United States, reciting poetry and raising awareness about the role that the U.S. The poet Carolyn Forché’s engagement with El Salvador stretches back to the late 1970s. For this edition, Patrick Iber spoke with Carolyn Forché, author of In the Lateness of the World and What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Press). ![]() Patrick Iber ▪ April 7, 2020Ĭarolyn Forché at Georgetown University in April 2018 (Wikimedia Commons)īooked is a series of interviews about new books. The author of What You Have Heard Is True talks about her political education in El Salvador. ![]()
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