![]() ![]() It is her attempt to open the eyes of others the same way hers were opened by Leonel. This is one person’s journey on the road to understanding the interrelatedness among people of the world. She saw first-hand how the people lived and the human rights abuses that were being committed. ![]() Many times, he left her to her own devices. Leonel knew that a civil war was imminent. He insists that poets are the best witnesses and asks her to write about what she sees. In 1977, Leonel, a Salvadoran activist and relatively unknown “friend of a friend,” shows up without warning at Carolyn’s home in California, gives her a crash course in Salvadoran history, and convinces her to travel to El Salvador to witness the beginning of the Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992). Poet Carolyn Forche’s memoir about her experiences in El Salvador. ![]() And why would this stranger…take any interest in a naïve North American poet?” “Over the years, I have been asked why, as a twenty-seven-year-old American poet who spoke Spanish brokenly and knew nothing about the isthmus of the Americas, I would accept the invitation of a man I barely knew to spend time in a country on the verge of war. ![]()
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