Black Forest Dreams

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New Awards for “Black Forest Dreams”:

—Two 2022 Reader Views “Reviewer’s Choice” Awards—Bronze (3rd Place), Poetry Category, and Bronze (3rd Place), Travel Category

—”Distinguished Favorite Award”/Travelogue-Poetry Category, 2022 Independent Press Awards

—1st Place, Poetry Category, 2021 Royal Dragonfly Awards

—3rd Place, Poetry Category, Colorado Independent Publishers Association, 2021

—Finalist, 2021 Royal Palm Literary Awards, Florida Writers Association

—Finalist, Two Poetry Categories, 2021 Annual “Best Book” Awards, sponsored by the American Book Festival

“Black Forest Dreams” contains fifty-five travel poems that were written over the past eight years after a moving, meaningful trip the author took to a number of German cities with his wife and (then) ten and twelve-year-old sons, along with many other older and younger family members, in order to explore their German heritage and visit relatives in the Black Forest where his grandmother, grandfather, and great uncle (on his mother’s side) were born and worked as farmers until emigrating to America in 1927.

The poems present the intriguing sights, sounds and wonders of these German cities as seen from a traveler’s (and father's) eyes and take readers along for an exciting, and insightful journey through Wiesbaden, The Rhine River, Rudesheim, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, The Black Forest, Seitingen/Oberflacht, Neuschwanstein, Oberammergau, Munich, Rothenburg, Weimar, Dresden and Berlin, while reflecting from time to time on families, children, grandfathers, sons, the long immigrant journey to America, the world wars, the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, lederhosen, Grandma Kuhn’s plum cake, hotel pizza, Salvador Dali & Leonardo Da Vinci, entertaining street-crossing light signage, delicious ice cream, Mad King Ludwig and his castles, swimming pools, cuckoo clocks, tasty confectionary treats, small-town churches, soaring cable cars, two-man crosscut saws and the sheer joy of reuniting with relatives unseen for many years.

“Black Forest Dreams” has just been published by Kelsay Books. Please click on the following Amazon.com link to purchase a copy: http://bit.ly/BuyBlackForestDreams

Or, click on the following link to purchase “Black Forest Dreams” from Kelsay Books: https://kelsaybooks.com/products/black-forest-dreams-a-journey-through-germany

fabian-wiktor Black Forest Germany.jpg — “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”

— **Janet Burroway**, Pulitzer Prize Nominated Novelist, author of *Imaginative Writing* and *Raw Silk*

micaela-parente+Black+Forest+Germany.jpg — “If 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 *Black Forest Dreams*. The poems are wise, clear, and exhilarating.”

— **Steve Katz**, author of *The Exaggerations of Peter Prince*, *Saw*, and Moving Parts

sandra-ahn-mode black Forest Germany.jpg — “These poems form a travelogue of a family tracing its genealogy, studying its roots. It’s a collection of passionate images of a beautiful country. Food, art, music, life— all the memories of a trip to Germany, the poet’s ancestral home. Written in free verse with lots of comparative language, these poems are a tribute to a heritage and a country, passionate and beautifully written — a pleasure to read.”

— **Emily-Jane Hills Orford**, award-winning Canadian author

Grandma Kuhn’s Plum Cake

A Cine-Poem by Joseph Kuhn Carey (with cinematic visuals by Joseph Kuhn Carey II)

This poem from my new “Black Forest Dreams” poetry collection is dedicated to my grandmother, Theresia Kuhn, who was born & grew up in the Black Forest area of Germany before emigrating to America in 1927. Over the years, my grandmother may have baked thousands of plum and apple cakes, and each was a marvel to taste and behold!

View the cinematic poem here or by clicking on the video below