Witness and Resistance to a Brutal Civil War in El Salvador
b'A conversation with Carolyn Forch\\xe9 author of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance.\\xa0 Carolyn Forch\\xe9 recounts her experiences in El Salvador since the late 1970\\u2019s and during the war.\\nCarolyn Forch\\xe9 is a poet, editor, translator, and activist. She is the current director of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.\\xa0 He is the author of many books of poetry including\\xa0 Blue Hour,\\xa0The Angel of History,\\xa0The Country Between Us, and\\xa0Gathering the Tribes.\\xa0 In 2013, Forch\\xe9 received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize.\\nWhat You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman\\u2019s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. It is the story of a woman\\u2019s radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life.\\nPhoto by Harry Mattison -harrymattison1@gmail.com\\nThe post Witness and Resistance to a Brutal Civil War in El Salvador appeared first on KPFA.'