The Angel of History

“Poetry of consummate beauty . . . reminiscent of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’” from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). Placed in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster—war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb—Forché’s ambitious and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems reflect the effects of such experience: the lines, and often the images with