Everything you need to understand or teach The Garden Shukkei-en by Carolyn Forché.
Carolyn Forché initially published "The Garden Shukkei-en" in Provincetown Arts in 1988 and included it in her third collection, The Angel of History (1994). The poem was also shown in conjunction with Danz Macabre photographic art exhibit at the School of Art, Arizona State University at Tempe and is included in the portfolio of show photographs, So to Speak . Forché takes the title and epigraph of The Angel of History from Walter Benjamin's...