is there better way to describe Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre?

Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatere is different from reading a book of individual poems because it is a narrative about a girl's experiences from childhood to young adulthood. Rather than poems that are only possibly connected through a common theme, the poems in Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre follow a timeline. They connect through a common speaker, and continue a story. The reader becomes invested in the young girl's experiences portrayed throughout the poems, rather than just the imagery itself. Since this book of poems does have somewhat of a story line, it could easily be described as a "poetic novella." It is indeed a set of poems that seem to connect together as a story, and I guess that would be the easiest way to describe the category in which Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre would fall into. Even so, the story has a lot of disconnect, unlike other poetic novellas, and is more of a poetic account of single experiences that can be strung together to connect as a coming of age story-- though much of the life-span that is portrayed is left out from the poetic narrative itself.