This Unexpected Time

An unplanned journey through memory, viewed through the lens of an entirely unexpected format. Are these poems? Monologues? In the end, the definition doesn't matter. These thirty memories describe a life of searching and creating and striving and yearning. Of growing up (and growing old) as a gay man in Minnesota. Of all the road trips along the way. Of love and sex and joy and rage. Of friends and family. Of success and loss and, finally, reckoning.

Dark, funny, sad, and sometimes ridiculous - this "memoir in poems" offers a surprising glimpse into six decades of a writer finding his way. A summary of how one man has spent this unexpected time.