Blue Hour by Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché,
Blue Hour, poems: Forché's lyrical fourth collection, her first since the tour de force
The Angel of History, ranges from personal memories of childhood and childrearing to stark images of atrocity, with the centerpiece, the forty-seven-page "On Earth," brilliantly modeled after "gnostic abecedarians." (HarperCollins)