If we are the forest the animals dream Author|Melissa Marroquin Between Camelots (winner of the

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

Her deep reverence for the inevitability of loss and the grace of memory will stay with you long after you finish reading

Sandy is an inspiration to many

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If we are the forest the animals dream Author|Melissa Marroquin Between Camelots (winner of theThe 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