The Angel of History is an epic story/poem by internationally acclaimed poet
Carolyn Forché. This poetry of history weaves through the rough cut channels of man's unspeakable, yet never to forget, history of murderous rampage and selective cleansings of humanity.

The book (published by: Harper Row) covers the genocides of Europe in the forties, El Salvador in the eighties, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"There were trains, and beneath them, laddered fields.
Autumns the fields were deliberately burned by a fire so harmless children ran through it
making up a sort of game.
Women beat the flames with brooms and blankets, so the fires were said to be under control.
As for the children, they were forbidden to ask about the years before they were born.
Yet they burned the fields, yet everything was said to be under control with the single phrase -
death traffic."

The CD contains the author reading her poetry, accompanied by the sound collage and compositions of Michael Moses. It covers the opening thirteen pages of the book and runs for 16 minutes. Proceeds go towards the funding of the project's completion.

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