If we are the forest the animals dream Author|Melissa Marroquin His intimate account of life

His intimate account of life as a Berliner coming of age during World War II and its aftermath is a reminder in these troubled times that averting our eyes from racist intolerance has devastating personal consequences

they cover territories ranging from personal confession and diagnosis to political catastrophes such as war and exile

with equal part precision and aplomb

Between Camelots (winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize

he’s learned that playing it safe and avoiding personal and professional risk will get you nowhere

If we are the forest the animals dream Author|Melissa Marroquin His intimate account of lifeThe poems in Patrick Cahill's If we are the forest the animals dream delight in their invention, at times enigmatic and surreal, at times brimming with longing and absence, always penetrating in their precision and astonishing in their turns of phrase. The iconic image of a footbridge in Mexico with which the collection opens establishes a motif these poems revolve around: the liminal realms we traverse alone from mystery to mystery. Other poems seek