Insights in California

Insights in California 2003 is the author?s way of thinking about the future, recording memories, and coping with the daily stress of adjusting to her new life in America as a newcomer from the Philippines. Culture shock, social adjustment, widening perspective on different subjects, deepening reflections, heightened faith and convictions?these are some of the topics in this book of poems. Some of them are addresses to real people whom the author got acquainted with or talked with. The style is a marriage of free verse and blank verse though sometimes there is still the attempt to construct patterns of rhythm and rhyme and to follow structure and metrical patterns such as in Haikus on November. In general, however, the writer set herself free from the norms of conservative poetry. And she enjoyed the liberating experience as she did in journalism.