Welcome to the juncture of art with poetry in LENS, by Grace Marie Grafton. Works of art created in California between 1853 and 2010 serve as a lens through which the poet interprets the settling and development of the amazing state (of being) that is California. A fourth generation Californian, Grafton combines personal, as well as chronological, history with the richly varied ecology of her home region, to create a book of unique poetic art.