The Country Between Us

The Country Between Us begins with a collection of poems on El Salvador, where Carolyn Forché worked as a journalist in the late 1970s and was deeply immersed in the country's political fight. Other poems by Forché are similarly intimate and urgent. The picture of a compassionate, bold, and active young woman who has made her life a trip may be the end impression of her poems. She's been to many places, as these poems show; she also has the feeling of someone who is coming from far away and going far away. As Ignazio Silone puts it: "I am an exile in my own world. "