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Pedregosa St.

By Enid Osborn

Pedregosa St.

By Enid Osborn

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Between 1997 and 2025, poet Enid Osborn lived in a 2-story Italianate Victorian boarding house built c. 1902 in Westside Santa Barbara, California. The house sat in a cul-de-sac abutting the railroad and freeway. Blending autobiography, magic realism and fiction, Osborn paints a picture of a charmed-if-spartan life. Poems focus mainly on the early years of her tenancy, when the house stood amid a crumbling neighborhood in gang territory-an area which gentrified in later years. Subthemes include trains, insomnia, ghosts, rats, birds, colorful neighbors, surviving cancer, and living long enough in one place to play a bit role in its metamorphosis. A short section is devoted to the poet's first neighbor and book dedicatee, a quiet artist named Jon Wilsher, who was well-regarded for his landscapes.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
92
Release Date:
2025-11-15
Publication Date:
2025-11-15
Publisher:
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1962405478
ISBN13:
9781962405478
Weight:
128 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
5 cm
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