An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forch and the 71st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets The poems in Gathering the Tribes recount experiences from the author\'s adolescence and young-adult life, closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body\'s functioning.
Many deal with uprootedness--hasty emigrations from Czechoslovakia and Kiev, the loss of grand.
An examination of kinship and uprootedness, Gathering the Tribes is the first volume of poetry by Carolyn Forch and the 71st volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets The poems in Gathering the Tribes recount experiences from the author\'s adolescence and young-adult life, closely bound to the natural cycles of the seasons, of generations, of the body\'s functioning