Against Forgetting

Against Forgetting

Author: Carolyn Forché

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 812

ISBN-13: 9780393309768

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Modern poems deal with genocide, wars, revolutions, the Holocaust, political repression, apartheid, and the democracy movement in China


Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001

Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001

Author: Carolyn Forché

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-01-27

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 0393347664

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A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.


Against the Forgetting

Against the Forgetting

Author: Hans Faverey

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780811215558

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A stunning selection of poems from the great twentieth-century Dutch poet.


The Forgetting

The Forgetting

Author: Sharon Cameron

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0545945224

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From beloved author of Rook comes a brilliant and genre-bending exploration of truth and memory, love and loss in this remarkable story of a civilization that undergoes a collective forgetting. What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes. Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person's memories -- of parents, children, love, life, and self -- are lost. Unless they have been written.In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn't written the truth. Because Nadia is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten.But when Nadia begins to use her memories to solve the mysteries of Canaan, she discovers truths about herself and Gray, the handsome glassblower, that will change her world forever. As the anarchy of the Forgetting approaches, Nadia and Gray must stop an unseen enemy that threatens both their city and their own existence -- before the people can forget the truth. And before Gray can forget her.


The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Author: Milan Kundera

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2023-03-28

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0063290693

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"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.


Memory Against Forgetting

Memory Against Forgetting

Author: Rusty Bernstein

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2017-10-06

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 1776141563

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Lionel ‘Rusty’ Bernstein was arrested at Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, on 11 July 1963 and tried for sabotage, alongside Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and other leaders of the African National Congress and Umkhonto we Sizwe in what came to be known as the Rivonia Trial. He was acquitted in June 1964, but was immediately rearrested. After being released on bail, he fled with his wife Hilda into exile, followed soon afterwards by their family. This classic text, first published in 1999, is a remarkable man’s personal memoir of a life in South African resistance politics from the late 1930s to the 1960s. In recalling the events in which he participated, and the way in which the apartheid regime affected the lives of those involved in the opposition movements, Rusty Bernstein provides valuable insights into the social and political history of the era.


Memory Against Forgetting

Memory Against Forgetting

Author: Ranjith Kally

Publisher: Quivertree Publications

Published: 2014-11-01

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 192820936X

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Ranjith Kally captured iconic scenes, such as his portrait Umkumbane, which has come to symbolise the shimmering jazz age of African townships in the 1950s. When Miriam Makeba returned to Maseru, Lesotho, for a concert for black South Africans at the height of apartheid, Kally too ventured to Lesotho and returned home with a remarkable image of an exiled singer poised between joy and heartbreak. And in a series of unflinching portraits, he documented with probity the horror of the forced removals in Natal. In short, the wider appreciation of his contribution to our struggle for dignity needs to remembered and fully embraced for current South Africans intent on honouring their past.


Forgetting Ireland

Forgetting Ireland

Author: Bridget Connelly

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780873514491

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The immigrants were at last removed from the colony; their name became the town's shorthand for lying, drunken failures.".


Lethe

Lethe

Author: Harald Weinrich

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780801441936

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Harald Weinrich's epilogue considers forgetting in the present age of information overflow, particularly in the area of the natural sciences."--Jacket.