{"product_id":"forche-carolyn-otherwherehb","title":"[09\/08\/26] Forché, Carolyn: Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026 (HB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eScribner, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 8, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver half a century, Carolyn Forché has exemplified how a poet's voice can cut through the cacophony of an age and speak to our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. \u003ci\u003eOtherwhere \u003c\/i\u003espans her groundbreaking career, including the poems crafted in her early twenties from \u003ci\u003eGathering the Tribes \u003c\/i\u003e(1976), a world of \"horse-breath weather\" and the whispering aspens of her grandmother's Slovak; the \"poetry of courage and compassion\" (Margaret Atwood) in \u003ci\u003eThe Country Between Us \u003c\/i\u003e(1981); and the elegiac realm of \u003ci\u003eIn the Lateness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), with its bygone friends, besieged cities, and dreams of the displaced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOtherwhere\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the finest poems of Forché's body of work, selected by the poet herself, and includes a short new collection \"If there is ink,\" which lights a signal fire in a state of emergency. In these new poems, Forché sifts through the new ruins of the present, conjuring the early days of an emergency where people \"pretend to live \/ as we have always lived,\" and cautioning \"There are no secrets to staying completely invisible so they are not included here.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Hilton Als writes in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Toni Morrison once observed that there is no such thing as bigger than life: life \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e big. Forché, in her profoundly ambitious work, aims to capture that bigness, line by line.\"\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45143459659799,"sku":"9781668218242","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/61zT9rvtWnL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780614516","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/forche-carolyn-otherwherehb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}