This Sunday night’s poet is Carolyn Forché, whose most famous book, The Country Between Us, is based on her experiences in war-torn El Salvador. It’s hard to write political poems that succeed as poems, and hard to write prose poems that are not simply prose masquerading as poetry. Forché succeeds at both in “The Colonel” (CW: gore and violence):
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