Author Description

Hard Rain is a story of the bitter storms and deluge of emotions between two people who meet by chance and embark on a spiritual road trip across a land inhabited by Knut Hamsun, Per Wahloo and Selma Lagerloff. The poems contained herein draw on broken relationships, unrequited love and the decreasing circles of life, self-harm, addiction and medication above an abyss of fractured mental health. All the while the rain falls…clean water, ice cold snow, acid rain and salted human tears. As Bob Dylan once wrote: “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” Our heroes Marco and Anna feel every drop. The style, structure, and thematic elements of Hard Rain are influenced by Bob Dylan’s masterpiece Renaldo and Clara as the narrative poems move between the first and third person with each chapter. This bookis for you, me and everyone who has felt the rain.