Preview: Carolyn Forché tells how Margaret Atwood and the Mt. St. Helens eruption conspired to reshape her poetry career

<p>Even before Carolyn Forché published her breakthrough poetry collection The Country Between Us, the book caused controversy. Featuring stark, sometimes graphic depictions of war-torn El Salvador, where Forché had traveled in the late 1970s, the manuscript seemed destined to remain in a drawer -- until the poet took a fateful all-night car ride with legendary novelist Margaret Atwood. #poetry #poems #elsalvador #margaretatwood #carolynforche #thecountrybetweenus #thehandmaidstale #politicalpoetry #oscarromero  </p>