THE COUNTRY BETWEEN US - Copyright & Publication Information - Legal Notice

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Carolyn Forché’s The Country Between Us presents the author’s biography, academic appointments, major honors, and the publication history of the collection. It highlights how the poems draw on experiences in El Salvador before and during the civil war, and notes awards and later related works. The text also includes translation credits, acknowledgements, contents by section and page numbers, and formal copyright and permissions information for this 2019 UK edition.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages68

Reading Time1 h 45 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

In Salvador, 1978-80

Reunion

Ourselves or Nothing

CAROLYN FORCHÉ THE COUNTRY BETWEEN US 2017 THE COUNTRY BETWEEN US Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit,Michigan in 1950,and hastaught at several universities.She was Director of Lannan Centerfor Poetics and Social Practice,and held the Lannan Visiting Chairin Poetry at Georgetown University,Washington,DC,where sheis now a University Professor.Her many honours include fellow-ships from the Guggenheim Foundation,the Lannan Foundationand the National Endowment for the Arts;the Edita and Ira MorrisHiroshima Foundation Award,given in 1997 for using her poetryas a ‘means to attain understanding,reconciliation,and peace withincommunities and between communities';and most recently,YaleUniversity's Windham-Campbell Prize. Her first collection,Gathering the Tribes(1976),was selected forthe Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz.Her secondbook,The Country Between Us(1981;UK reissue from Bloodaxe,2019),drew on her experiences in EI Salvador before and duringthe civil war,and won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Faydi Castagnola Award,and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of theAcademy of American Poets.Her later collections have drawn uponwork written over many years:The Angel of History (HarperCollins,USA;Bloodaxe Books,1994),Blue Hour(HarperCollins,USA;Bloodaxe Books,2003),and In the Lateness of the World(due fromPenguin in the US and Bloodaxe in the UK in 2020). Her landmark anthology,Against Forgetting:Twentieth-CenturyPoetry of Witess(Norton,1993),was followed by Poetry of Witness:The Tradition iu English:1500-2001(Norton,2014),edited withDuncan Wu.She is Visiting Professor at Newcastle University,and edited the anthology The Mighty Strean:Poens in celebrationof Martin Luther King(Bloodaxe Books /Newcastle University,2017)with Jackie Kay.Her latest book is What You Have HeardIs True:a memoir of mitness and resistance(Penguin Press,USA,2019),which covers the same period as The Country Betmeen Us. Her translations include Mahmoud Darwish's Unfortumately,ItWas Paradise:Selected Poems(with Munir Akash,2003),ClaribelAlegra's Flomers from the Volcano(1983),and Robert Desnos'sSelected Poetry(with William Kulik,1991) CAROLYN FORCHÉ THE COUNTRYBETWEEN US Copyright C Carolyn Forché 1981,2019 ISBN:9781780373744 This edition published 2019 in the UK byBloodaxe Books Ltd,Eastburn,South Park,Hexham,Northumberland NE461BS. First published 1981 in the US by Harper &Rowand in the UK in 1983 by Jonathan Capc www.bloodaxebooks.com For further information about Bloodaxe titlesplease visit our website and join our mailing listor write to the above address for a catalogue Supported using publlc funding by ARTS COUNCILENGLAND # LEGAL NOTICE All rights reserved.No part of this book may bereproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form,or by any means,clectronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from Bloodaxe Books Ltd.Requests to publish work from this bookmust be sent to Bloodaxe Books Ltd.Carolyn Forché has asserted her right under Section 77 of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988to be identified as the author of this work. Cover design:Neil Astley &Pamela Robertson-Pearce. Printed in Great Britain by Bell &Bain Limited,Glasgow,Scotland,onacid-frec paper sourced from mills with FSC chain of custody certification. For Cutzcatán # ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Some of these poems appeared previously as follows:The American Poetry Reviem:‘As Children Together','Return’,'Reunion';Antaeus:'Departure’,Photographof My Room';The Atlantic Monthly:'Letter from Prague1968-78','The Visitor';The Nem Yorker:'For theStranger',◎ 1978 The New Yorker;Parnassus:‘TheMemory of Elena’;Pequod:'Joseph’,'The Colonel’,'City Walk-up,Winter 1969’;The Virginia QuarterlyReviem:'The Island’,'San Onofre,California';Anthologyof Magazine Verse:Yearbook of American Poetry:'Depar-ture’;Poet's Choice:'Reunion’;Women's InternationalResource Exchange:‘San Onofre,California

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What period and place does the book’s contents section cover most prominently?

The contents list poems under “In Salvador, 1978-80,” indicating a focus on El Salvador during those years, followed by additional sections such as “Reunion” and “Ourselves or Nothing.”

How does Forché describe the inspiration behind The Country Between Us?

The biography states that the collection drew on her experiences in El Salvador before and during the civil war.

What publication and rights information is included in this edition?

The document provides copyright statements, asserts author rights under the relevant copyright act section, specifies that reproduction requires prior written permission, and includes production details such as printing in Great Britain.

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