What Made Him Sing

About the Book

A soul-baring chronicle through 64 poems of a Vietnam draft-dodger who dropped out of society and never found his way back.  His search for meaning through poetry led from Akron, Ohio to the East Coast and then to San Francisco, where he worked for a time at City Lights Bookstore, owned by the famous poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Through these poems the price the author paid for his refusal to conform becomes more and more apparent in his own admissions of loneliness and confusion.  His struggles and points of view on issues mirror that of many ‘hippies’ during the 60’s, and provide insight into the social turmoil of those years.

Dying at the age of 39, his dreams of becoming a successful poet were never realized. The poems included in What Made Him Sing, published long after his death, were not ones their author would have wanted to share with the world, but they are the ones that finally reveal who he was.

The author’s very personal search for meaning is also a universal one that will touch a chord in every reader.

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