About This Book
The collection opens with a long dramatic idyl that stages the arrest, trial, and martyrdom of a young Christian woman and the spiritual awakening of a soldier, rendered in scene-like poetic dialogue and sacred allusion. The shorter poems that follow range from pastoral and elegiac lyrics to devotional and liturgical pieces, meditating on faith, loss, memory, nature, and ritual with formal diction, musical cadences, and classical and religious imagery.