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Also Known As Carolyn Louise Forché • Carolyn Sidlosky
Born April 28, 1950 (age 76) • Detroit • Michigan
Notable Works “Blue Hour” • “Gathering the Tribes” • “The Angel of History” • “The Country Between Us” • “What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance”

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American poet Carolyn Forché, 1989
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