Be with Serpent & Dove Inspired by the true stories

Inspired by the true stories of Jewish children hidden during World War II

A FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker

Moore's transcendence over the myriad forces of repression that faced him is a testament to the grace and care of the people who loved him

Un mundo más justo

Amid plots and counterplots

Be with Serpent & Dove Inspired by the true storiesDrawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U. S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section a moving transcription of Gander's efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer's rise from the page like