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...Suicide Act of 1961, "a person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another" faces up to 14 years in prison. To get around the law, more than 100 British citizens have traveled to Switzerland to end their lives at Dignitas, an assisted-suicide clinic in Forch, near Zurich. But so far, no one who has accompanied a person to Dignitas has faced prosecution after returning to the U.K. The vagueness of the law pushed Debbie Purdy, a British woman suffering from multiple sclerosis who plans to end her life at the clinic, to approach the court about...
FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner /The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer /The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché /The Dean's December, Saul Bellow /Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler /The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner∙The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché The Dean's December, Saul Bellow A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux The Villa Golitsyn, Piers Paul Read
...COUNTRY BETWEEN US by Carolyn Forché; Harper & Row; 59 pages; $11.50 (hardback), $5.95 (paper). After winning the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1976, Carolyn Forche paid extended visits to El Salvador, working as a journalist and human rights advocate. She could not have known that land would be Topic A in the U.S. just at the time her second book appeared; thanks to that coincidence, though, some of the poems in The Country Between Us have the urgency of news bulletins...
...good to arch or trivial, the level of poetry is consistently high. That is not surprising, since very few popular magazines include any poems at all. The best contemporary poets must depend largely on smaller presses, and a number of them are represented here: Derek Walcott, Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, Charles Simic, Louise Glück, Galway Kinnell and Robert Creeley...