A review by sjgochenour
The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche

2.0

The powerful imagery of this book wasn't really enough to take the bad taste out of my mouth from reading poem after poem that gave dignity and insistence to the voice of a disconnected observer at the expense of the people and events depicted. This book seemed very arrogant in the importance it gave to the "storyteller" or the "one who speaks for those without voices" (an attitude if not a phraseology on nearly every page.) I found the poems that dealt with the U.S. more compelling.