{"product_id":"otherwhere","title":"Otherwhere","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 language; 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, \u003ci\u003eIf there is ink\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Throughout these poems of unparalleled moral conviction, there resounds a \"sense of responsibility: to the fullness of lives unnecessarily [bound]; to poetry and its insistence on meaning; to attention and action, no matter the cost\" (\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e) that has defined Forché's work--an inimitable, monumental contribution to American letters.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54265796919662,"sku":"9781668218242","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_e3020c6a-337c-4f82-8b44-b69635d697af.jpg?v=1783264329","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/otherwhere","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}