FLEEING BACK chronicles travels through the mental and geographical landscapes of the world and of the spirit. The poems reveal the sensual, sometimes dark, sometimes lush and exotic topography of the worlds the poet moves through as she embraces the choice to live life dangerously, passionately and fully, rather than according to the expectations of family, culture and time. Among dusty sand-filled plains, dirty rivers, and desiccated towns strewn with the detritus of war; from Greece, Egypt, France, Italy, Bosnia, Thailand, Hong Kong, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; in living rooms, hospitals, coffee shops, deserts, army camps and trains: the familiar is revealed as foreign through the flux of time and experience. The result is a celebration of life in all its tragic, regrettable, beautiful, transformative and astonishing moments.