"Forché, already a master of imagery, creates here a masterwork for the 21st century." – Jane Miller
"Again Carolyn Forche hovers above the lacerated landscape of history filling the holes 'between saying and said.' BLUE HOUR does not console but emboldens. The fear we share is never dodged. This singular voice is writ in bone, snow, coal, stone and sorrow." – C.D. Wright
"And now comes a stunning new work by Carolyn Forche, my hero, because not only does she write beautifully, she has fierce moral principles." – –Carolyn Kizer
"To read these poems is an experience as calmly and restfully beautiful as looking at a group of related impressionist canvases, like those of Monet. Especially memorable for me are poems like 'Refuge' and above all, the long poem 'On Earth'" – – John Bayley
"The long poem 'On Earth' immediately draws the reader's attention–it's such a mysterious catalogue of all the things we know and don't know: an uncanny mixture of peace, beauty and cruelty. If you ask 'which country is it?' the answer is 'this country is called earth." – –Adam Zagajewski
"Unflinching witness and eloquent mourner." – The New Yorker
"An eerily beautiful, bruised and persuasive book." – Los Angeles Times Book Review
"BLUE HOUR blends domestic tenderness with philosophical reverie ... It is full of tiny startling detail ... celebrating the freedom of imagination and memory." – Financial Times
"A ferocious remembering in the face of death, in the face of life." – North American Review
"Resplendent and solemn ... takes readers to similar state of limbo, someplace between the conscious and the intuited." – Hartford Courant
"Like the scatter from a fireworks explosion, Forché's images float on the currents of the reader's memory." – American Book Review
"Dense, lyrical, mysterious ... a poetic journey no reader should miss." – Library Journal
" [An] austerely beautiful gathering of elegiac meditations ... Forché [is] a writer exquisitely attuned to the tenderness and awe, violence and grief inherent in human life." – Booklist
