"A dark, richly textured, complicated world...that great rarity, an altogether new thing." – Boston Globe
"A difficult book to put down, or to forget...Forche proves once again that socially conscious poetry is not a contradiction in terms." – Review of Books
"A dark, richly textured, complicated work...[The Angel of History] is that great rarity, an altogether new thing." – Liz Rosenberg, Boston Globe
"I don't think I have ever come across a poem of such length that is nevertheless so beautifully transparent and haunting." – James Merrill
"Remarkable. . . . Poetry of consummate beauty...reminiscent of Eliot's 'The Waste Land.'" – Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The Angel of History is instantly recognizable as a great book, the most humanitarian and aesthetically 'inevitable' response to a half century of atrocities that has yet been written in English." – Calvin Bedient, The Threepenny Review
"The poignant cri de couer of this singular work most affect all who have an integrity still possible in this painfully despairing time." – Robert Creeley
