In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché PBS Spring Recommendation 2020 Eleanor Margolies Born and educated in Guyana

Born and educated in Guyana

and Behold My Father on His Bicycle

The poet’s failure to write “a real love poem” and a childhood memory of near-accidental loss of eyesight are both

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In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché <b>PBS Spring Recommendation 2020</b> Eleanor Margolies Born and educated in GuyanaCarolyn Forch is one of Americas most important contemporary poets renowned as a poet of witness as well as an indefatigable human rights activist. Over four decades, she has crafted visionary work that has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, enquiries and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. In the Lateness of the