Psychedelic Dreams

Born queer in a society that demanded conformity and punished difference, the author eventually built a life in exile in the United States. Along the way he was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and Schizoid Disorder, and he turned to poetry as a way to let out what he had been forced to hide. Every day he kept up the public face of normal life that his circumstances required.

Psychedelic Dreams is the first of more than ten volumes of his poetry. It gathers poems he wrote between the ages of 18 and 28, a period that begins with the first onset of Bipolar Disorder and ends with his move to the Pacific Northwest.