(Hardback)

Song of the Balcones is a 750-line dramatic monolog depicting the fatal collision of three cultures in Central and South Texas. An epic ballad written to be read aloud with music, it is composed in 10-line stanzas of iambic pentameter, arrayed in five cantos. The work debuted on KUT-FM radio in 1988, read by the author with the backing of a jazz ensemble.

(Paperback)

RUGGED TRUMPET is a record of ballads and lyric poetry written across a period of six decades. These poems are crafted to be read aloud as word music. When one reads a poem out loud, it should come to life.