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	The Angel of History By Carolyn Forche
Los Angeles Times Book Prize This book bears witness to the century's moral disaster: war, geno-cide, the Holocaust, the bomb. 'Forch} has never undertaken less than the responsibilities of conscience, and now in The Angel of History she has written a poem that is suddenly important, like the Morning News' - Derek Walcott. £7.95 Paperback 1 85224 307 4. 96pp. 1994. Subjects: American Poets, Art/History Interest, Political/Social, Women
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