{"product_id":"otherwhere-carolyn-forchzs-9781668218242","title":"Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026","description":"\u003cb\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\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Forché\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1668218240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668218242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Carolyn Forché","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48443179041023,"sku":"9781668218242","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_193a4d03-ff0d-45a2-ab86-f44e443c1077.jpg?v=1777202375","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/otherwhere-carolyn-forchzs-9781668218242","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}