"A simple, beautiful volume, filled with poems as contagious as any I've read or heard in a long time." -- Albuquerque Weekly Alibi
Here is poetry that is candidly honest, deftly written, sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, and always interesting. -- Midwest Book Review
Product Description
In this collection of forty-four poems, Robert Swearingen takes us on a journey through a life that is by turns raw, humorous, and at times, poignant. With a brutal honesty that asks for neither pity nor condemnation, these poems tell of growing up in a rough blue collar family during the fifties, of a young man working in the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, of love and the end of love, and finally, of a life on the streets for almost two decades. He speaks--in the context of personal experience--of a life of material success, selfishness, loss, folly, loneliness, and the hope for a redemption that will transcend the mistakes of the past.
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