September Elegies

This collection of poetry is like a vitreous mosaic with intricate details, both colored and colorless. It sets into motion a trilogy based on man's impact on his world as it relates to nature, to people at the individual level and mankind at the worldwide level. Pastoriza Iyodo uses the elegy in its most expanded form to revere, lament and illuminate-a translucent, hazy view of the past, a transparent unadulterated look at the present and a shadowy and foreboding possibility for the future. In the final analysis, September Elegies leaves the determination of the prognosis to the reader.