Call It a Life attempts to convey the joys and sorrows, the successes and failures, the anxieties and satisfactions that have characterized the author's life. He hopes these poems will awaken contemplative or emotional responses in whatever reader chances upon them: young or old, male or female, sophisticated or less so. Whether evoking concurrence, or demurral, or disagreement-whether resulting in anger, empathy, cynicism-he hopes the poems will resonate within the reader in some fashion.