A review by mattshervheim
The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche

5.0

Reading this after reading Forché' What You Have Heard Is True, I expected the poems about El Salvador to be powerful, and they were — and knowing the background story deepened the experience immensely. But I was just as enthralled by the personal poems as well, mostly tales of shared solitude in cities around the world, haunted by violence and longing, set against a backdrop of blue winter.