Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris PBS Recommended Translation specifically Helen’s supposed deceit and

specifically Helen’s supposed deceit and infidelity

all the more urgently so as he grows older

On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son

military and historical contexts

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris PBS Recommended Translation specifically Helen’s supposed deceit andStanding 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