Carolyn Forché, poet, translator, and activist, is professor of English at Georgetown University. She has published two award-winning volumes of poetry, Gathering the Tribes and The Country Between Us. In 1990 Ms. Fourché received a Lannan Literary Award, granted to poets and writers of literary excellence "whose work promotes a truer understanding of contemporary life." Her most recent volume of poetry is Blue Hour. Duncan Wu is professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the editor of Romanticism: An Anthology.

"The selections are blazing and haunting, poems of fierce precision, communal consciousness, courage, and reverberating beauty, and Forche and Wu succinctly establish the historical context for each poet's work in glinting biographical essays." -- Donna Seaman "[A] testament to the travails of men and women over the last 500 years, collected and curated with infinite care." -- Valerie Ryan "Argues for the importance of a public-spirited poetry, willing to speak the truth to power." -- Robyn Creswell

Carolyn Forché, poet, translator, and activist, is professor of English at Georgetown University. She has published two award-winning volumes of poetry, Gathering the Tribes and The Country Between Us. In 1990 Ms. Fourché received a Lannan Literary Award, granted to poets and writers of literary excellence "whose work promotes a truer understanding of contemporary life." Her most recent volume of poetry is Blue Hour. Duncan Wu is professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the editor of Romanticism: An Anthology.

"The selections are blazing and haunting, poems of fierce precision, communal consciousness, courage, and reverberating beauty, and Forche and Wu succinctly establish the historical context for each poet's work in glinting biographical essays." -- Donna Seaman "[A] testament to the travails of men and women over the last 500 years, collected and curated with infinite care." -- Valerie Ryan "Argues for the importance of a public-spirited poetry, willing to speak the truth to power." -- Robyn Creswell

Carolyn Forché, poet, translator, and activist, is professor of English at Georgetown University. She has published two award-winning volumes of poetry, Gathering the Tribes and The Country Between Us. In 1990 Ms. Fourché received a Lannan Literary Award, granted to poets and writers of literary excellence "whose work promotes a truer understanding of contemporary life." Her most recent volume of poetry is Blue Hour. Duncan Wu is professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the editor of Romanticism: An Anthology.

"The selections are blazing and haunting, poems of fierce precision, communal consciousness, courage, and reverberating beauty, and Forche and Wu succinctly establish the historical context for each poet's work in glinting biographical essays." -- Donna Seaman "[A] testament to the travails of men and women over the last 500 years, collected and curated with infinite care." -- Valerie Ryan "Argues for the importance of a public-spirited poetry, willing to speak the truth to power." -- Robyn Creswell