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Carolyn Forche. The Angel of History. New York. HarperCollins. 1994. xx + 84 pages. $20.
The Angel of History offers another example of the long poem as a series of meditative reflections and observations. Carolyn Forche, who has authored two previous collections that have received notable prizes, describes her book in a note to the reader: "The Angel of History is not about experiences. It is for me the opening of a wound, the muffling and silence of a decade, and it is also a gathering of utterances that have lifted away from the earth and wrapped it in a weather of words. These utterances issue from my own encounter with the events of this century but do not represent it." Forche, always politically correct and on the mark to use her talents efficiently, goes whole hog and attempts...