From the foreword by Steven Ellman, PhD: 

The reader who has not read the papers in this volume is in for a rare treat: the discovery of new worlds revealed within what were thought to be familiar spaces. I believe that those who have already read some of the chapters in this volume will have the experience of rediscovering precious clinical and theoretical gems that have influenced many therapists and analysts. In fact, Bach’s influence has quietly spread throughout the field often without various authors fully acknowledging or perhaps...

Each poem in this collection forms a spiral staircase of carefully balanced lines that lead us to the balcony of surprise.A seamless blend of keen observation, mild-mannered irony, and garden fresh metaphors, Mahon's unassuming craft reflects contemporary poetry at its best

--Salman Akhtar, author of The Hidden Knot and Blood and Ink.

This book is a gift to all of us. Part magician, part leprechaun, Eugene Mahon has produced a volume of magical poems that, in the tradition of Yeats himself, both speaks to the soul and touches the heart.

--Theodore Jacobs

Mahon is...