This is a joyous collection, taking joy in the sun on the Rhine and in the big red table umbrella dripping down on all sides in droplets of sweat slipping to the parched ground and in ships sailing like sugar cubes through molasses in a boy in a red Alpine hat and a grandfather with a mandolin. The poems travel through the Black Forest, but they also travel through four generations-generations who, in the poems of this book, are lovingly connected.pJanet Burroway, Pulitzer Prize Nominated Novelist, author ofi Imaginative Writingi andi Raw SilkipIf you want a rich taste of travel, an excursion into the Black Forest, a cruise down the Rhine, and can't afford the ticket or the time, let Joe Carey guide you with his beautifully observed, loving travel poems to the places you might go if you could, in his iBlack Forest Dreams.i The poems are wise, clear, and exhilarating.pSteve Katz, author ofi The Exaggerations of Peter Prince, Sawi and iMoving PartsipThese poems form a travelogue of a fam