Ways to Go Out: Poems Along the Path to Mature Masculinity

By Rick Belden

The author's exploration of various aspects of his experience as a man continues as he faces the ongoing impact of a childhood spent in an unhealthy family system on his life as an adult and the ever more pressing realities of aging, mortality, and the passage of time. Another major area of exploration is sex, love, and the state of his relationship with the feminine, including a growing awareness of the depth, impact, and influence of his Mother Wound on his life, choices, perceptions, and behaviors.

Third book in a series of three.

This is a preview PDF that includes the full text of the unpublished manuscript and a mock cover.