RaveThe National Book Review...heart-stoppingly beautiful ... Forché uses the memoir to explore with exquisite sensitivity questions about artists’ roles in moments of holocaust and terror ... Enlisting the same linguistic strategy she deployed in The Colonel, Forché does not spare readers from the graphic details of brutal, political murder ... What to do with human remains? What to do with the memory of human remains? This has been at the center of Forché’s project for the better part of 35 years ... Showing rather than telling in What You Have Heard is True, Forché has created a \'living archive\' for all who are lucky enough to read the book ... the words of this extraordinary poet conjure the senseless brutality of one of America’s dirty wars and also remind us that words matter.
