CIRCULARITY - Tecno-Libro

Circularity, .a collection of poems .from a fourth generation Californian's .point of view, .focusses .on the classic themes of life and death. .Many of the poems were written while .the author lived .with four generations of her family and were inspired by the continual circularity of life, .death, and unsettling events .in a familial setting. From Earthly Catalogues that evokes a warm description of natural elements with a surprising disruption, .to Suburban ER in a sterile forbidding setting rift with the promise of death, .to Venice Beach about a lost boy on the edge of maturity, .these poems comprise an evocative view of a life lived with twists and turns. The centerpiece poem, Adobe, set in a central California adobe brick house, .is a coming of age story of a .young .girl, .who learns of her .irish-Scottish-italian heritage from .her grandmother and how their part of Calif