Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness - Carolyn Forche

This landmark anthology takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: In the dark times, will there be singing? /Yes, there will be singing./About the dark times. Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--this volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, a chorus of voices from dark times, giving testimony to the poetic imagination seared by the fire of human suffering. Bearing witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square.