{"product_id":"in-the-lateness-of-the-world-poems-9780525560425","title":"In the Lateness of the World: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY\u003cbr\u003e2021 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An undisputed literary event.\" --NPR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"History--with its construction and its destruction--is at the heart of \u003ci\u003eIn the Lateness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . In [it] one feels the poet cresting a wave--a new wave that will crash onto new lands and unexplored territories.\" --Hilton Als, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Over four decades, Carolyn Forché's visionary work has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to one another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her first new collection in seventeen years, \u003ci\u003eIn the Lateness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death. The world here seems to be steadily vanishing, but in the moments before the uncertain end, an illumination arrives and \"there is nothing that cannot be seen.\" \u003ci\u003eIn the Lateness of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarolyn Forché is an American poet, translator, and memoirist. Her books of poetry are \u003ci\u003eBlue Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Angel of History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Country Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGathering the Tribes\u003c\/i\u003e. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eWhat You Have Heard Is True\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Penguin Press in 2019. In 2013, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. She is a University Professor at Georgetown University. She lives in Maryland with her husband, photographer Harry Mattison.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717270769938,"sku":"9780525560425","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_86807e90-67e4-4ed4-9a69-f0540c8eeead.jpg?v=1734614363","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-lateness-of-the-world-poems-9780525560425","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}