Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche\'s ambitious and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable.
But read together, these lines become a haunting mosaic of grief, evoking the necessary accommodations human beings make to surv.
The poems reflect the effects of such experience: the lines, and often the images within them, are fragmented discordant.
Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche\'s ambitious and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable
