Letter So That Happiness Ziad Khaddash if I trust you

if I trust you

‘Realistic poet whose gifts found expression in words

returns to Europe for a conference in Amsterdam

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

Letter So That Happiness Ziad Khaddash if I trust youArgentine 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