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An Inexhaustible Responsibility for the Other": A Conversation with Carolyn Forche

DeNiord, Chard

World literature today, 2017-01, Vol.91 (1), p.11 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
An Inexhaustible Responsibility for the Other": A Conversation with Carolyn Forche
Author: DeNiord, Chard
Subjects: Arabic language ; Art and life ; Conversation ; Darwish, Mahmoud (1941-2008) ; Ethical aspects ; Forche, Carolyn ; Forché, Carolyn ; Literary themes ; Literature ; Memory ; Morality of war ; Music ; National identity ; Otherness ; Place identity ; Poetic techniques ; Poetics ; Poetry ; Poets ; Singing ; Themes, motives ; War ; War and morals
Is Part Of: World literature today, 2017-01, Vol.91 (1), p.11
Description: With regard to the addendum that appears at the end of the interview, I emailed Carolyn following the recent election to ask her if she would like to comment on the election results. [...]our subsequent interview sessions focused with greater probity on the "main things" of Carolyn's multifaceted vocation and avocation as a poet, witness, and scholar. [...]when Marcel, who had set some of Mahmoud's poetry to music, started to play one of those pieces, the whole auditorium erupted, singing along in Arabic and from memory. Nelson Mandela praised her international anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993), as "a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice~' In 1998 she received the Edita & Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace & Culture Award for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and culture.
Publisher: Norman: University of Oklahoma
Language: English

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