Carolyn Forché is one of America’s most important contemporary poets. Blue Hour is a visionary book, and includes On Earth, a extraordinary long poem, a meditation on human existence and life on earth. Jane Miller called Blue Hour ‘a masterwork for the 21st century’. John Bayley said that reading these poems is ‘an experience as calmly and restfully beautiful as looking at a group of related impressionist canvasses, like those of Monet’.