Fortuna Redux

Fortuna Redux, named after the Roman goddess invoked by travelers in need of safe passage during a long journey, explores concepts of home, violence, and the body. Speakers ground themselves in place after place, yet seem unable to reconcile their surroundings with adequate feelings of safety to form a home. Threats to the body come from both within and without in this collection, as ekphrastic, geographic, theological, and scientific poems interrogate questions of blame, forgiveness, and guilt.