Letter So That Happiness Ziad Khaddash Philip Gross

Philip Gross

returns to Europe for a conference in Amsterdam

but also back into yourself to places you didn’t know existed

two sworn brothers lock horns – literally – as they drink and brag the night away and an old man turns to his flame-bellied stove for comfort when facing a bitter winter alone

vague green as it fluffs and swirls coarse sand

Letter So That Happiness Ziad Khaddash Philip GrossArgentine poet Arnaldo Calveyras first book of poetry, Letters So That Happiness (Cartas para qe la alegra), tells the story of the authors one way journey as a young man from his home in the northern pampas to Buenos Aires in 1950. It was the first leg of a journey that would end in exile. In this gentle, diffuse text in which time and place radiate and recede and spring up many and green, Letters strikingly anticipates the collusive forces that