![]() They’re appointed to diplomatic posts, or they’re assassinated, or put into prison but, one way or the other, taken seriously.’įorché was young, but not all that inexperienced. Vides was convinced that there would soon be a war in El Salvador and wanted Forché to witness it.įorché was not sure she’d be of any use: she was a poet, and poets in the United States, she told him, were seen as ‘bohemian, or romantics, or crazy … We have no credibility.’ Leonel replied, ‘In my country, and in the rest of Latin America, poets are taken seriously. ![]() ![]() As his daughters played with Forché’s pet rabbits, he explained the entire colonial and postcolonial history of Central America, before asking her to return with him to his country. Leonel Gómes Vides was a cousin of a friend and had driven to Southern California from El Salvador. In the late 1970s, when Carolyn Forché was twenty-seven years old, an enigmatic man turned up at her door with his two young daughters. ![]()
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