Author: Forche, Carolyn (Keywords)

Carolyn Forche is one of America's most important contemporary poets. Her later collections are visionary works drawing on work written over many years. 'In the Lateness of the World' is a dark book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, l...

Carolyn Forche is 27 when a mysterious stranger calling himself Leonel appears on her doorstep, having driven direct from El Salvador. A friend has heard rumours about who he might be - a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer - but nobody seems to know...