A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
You asked about my background? Well, all I can tell you is I was once meek and mild-mannered, average so to speak and a real nobody in this rude and violence-prone world. That is...until "the power" entered my otherwise humble little life. What influenced me to write this book, you next inquire? Simply put, I thought I had a story to tell. That, and the fact truth,like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose, and I'll believe what I know.