Opaque Melodies That Would Bug Most People

October 15, 2015

“Opaque Melodies That Would Bug Most People is filled with young, vibrant poems from a wise voice. The poems often wax reflective, filled with the historicity of experience, yet always returning to the now.”

–From the publisher

Tagged: Poetry

All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis

By Dana Sachs
Bellevue Literary Press
304 pages
$19.99

“In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe since WWII… All Else Failed is Dana Sachs’s compelling eyewitness account of the successes—and failures—of the volunteer relief network that emerged to meet the enormous need. Closely following the odysseys of seven individual men and women, and their families, it tells a story of despair and resilience, revealing the humanity within an immense humanitarian disaster.”

~ the publisher