Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris Adam Kammerling on the turn of a

on the turn of a phrase

The collection touches on themes of xenophobia

Some of these poems are in formal stanzas

and that of his children growing up with dual 'Cauc/asian’ heritage

It speaks – as its title implies – to a pursuit of justice and rebalance of a world in which lords and commoners must live side by side

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris Adam Kammerling on the turn of aStanding in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir in poems that reckons with erotic love even as the narrator is diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at the age of thirty six during a time of pandemic and political upheaval. With humour and honesty, the book portrays both the pleasures and the horrors of the lover, the citizen, and the medical subject. How can we find, in the midst of hell, what isn't hell? And whom can we tell how much we want to