Like It Is, his first full length collection, draws on a writing career spanning three decades. The themes are the universal ones of love and loss. However, what gives these poems their strength is their quiet determination to celebrate being human in spite of all the reasons not to. A collection to return to again and again, Like It Is is notable for its emotional honesty and reveals an original voice, both compassionate and witty, addressing the reader as an equal in a conversation about the complex nature of relationships and sharing the impulse to record experience against the passage of time.