![]() ![]() It is Forché's extraordinary memoir of the late 1970s, the years after she published her first book of poetry, when she traveled to El Salvador in the lead up to that country's devastating 12 year civil war, in which tens of thousands were killed. This is how What You Have Heard Is True begins. "There is soon going to be a war," the man says. ![]() The poet Carolyn Forché was 27 when a stranger showed up on her doorstep, unrolled a giant sheet of paper on her dining room table, and proceeded to give her a masterclass in Central American geopolitics and the crisis unfolding in El Salvador. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title What You Have Heard Is True Subtitle A Memoir of Witness and Resistance Author Carolyn Forché ![]()
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