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Thanks to In the Lateness of the World-Forché’s first book of poetry in seventeen years-there are certain things to which I now pay more attention: that stones carry the memories of many destructions that glass is the incendiary transformation of many small stones that clouds, formed of the same substance that wears rocks to sand, are themselves an unending promise of resurrection. After noting that this is a practice common among poets, she off-handedly put forth the only definition of poetry I’ve yet to hear that is large enough to hold the whole, ever-expanding world of it: “And poetry is a form of attention.”Īnd poetry is a form of attention a definition that calls the thing by what we know of it and what we don’t-its relationship to other forms of attention, key, blurring the lines of art and life so that the thing which matters most is not the thing but attention itself. DURING A 2019 INTERVIEW with Helena de Groot about the publication of What You Have Heard Is True, Carolyn Forché responded to a question about the act of noticing.