Carolyn Forche: Poems Glossary

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ascend

to rise up

lamentation

expressing sadness e.g. by crying

corpses

dead body

carp

a deep-bodied freshwater fish

hibakusha

a survivor of either of the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki in 1945.

resemble

to look like or be similar to

Sorrow

deep sadness

Haul

drag with effort

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