Fortunately 978-1-943735-50-1

Fortunately 978-1-943735-50-1Through poems that utilize hypnotic religious imagery, Nava EtShalom carries readers through an emotional seascape; crashing over on waves of worship. Fortunately unpacks ideas about relationships with family, God, and the self. Each poem is pieced together carefully as a house of cards, and ends solid as a stitched spine. What is left in the body after identity has been assumed? Where does one go to reconcile generations of trauma? EtShalom, is

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At a time in our culture when we rarely take a moment for a deep breath

Masquerading white boy

speaking to family

his content intimate and profound

its people asked to disappear quietly to facilitate the commodification and consumption of their land

and excitement

— BUST Magazine

“Then I will

extracting shards of trauma

and much more

Sirota conveys the chaos of an ineffectual