Carolyn Forché is one of America’s most important contemporary poets – renowned as a poet of witness – as well as an indefatigable human rights activist. In the Lateness of the World is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today.
Her meditative poetry has a majestic sweep, with themes ranging from life on earth and human existence to history, war, genocide and the Holocaust. In the Lateness of the World is her first new collection in seventeen years, and follows three other collections published by Bloodaxe in Britain, The Country Between Us (1981/2018), The Angel of History (1994) and Blue Hour (2003).