His poetry collections "1990" and "Poets for Life" are winners of the Lambda Literary Book Award. Michael Kleinis an award-winning poet and author. He lives in New York City and teaches memoir writing in the summer program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Michael Klein is an award-winning poet and author.
"Award-winning poet Michael Klein has given us a shameless and fascinating memoir of thoroughbreds and hypocrites, blackouts and jail cells, wanderlust and hard-won redemption." "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. And he revisits his past: his step-father introducing him to gambling and sex his mother's sudden death. He begins to have a recurring dream, strangely prophetic: a horse appearing as Richard disappears. "The race track put me in a kind of awe.It was a world inside a world.a labyrinth of luck, into and out of which the horses I walked every day were leading me." Among dissolute hired hands, in shedrows and tack rooms where men who care for horses also have sex, and in smoky after-hours bars, Klein tries to stop drinking, but can't he tries to stay with Richard, but can't. At the 110th running of the Kentucky Derby, where he was groom to the winning horse, Klein was led from the winner's circle into the center of a tragic mystery, and then into a new life. When his lover, Richard, left him to work on a race track, Klein followed, and so began his extraordinary five-year sojourn on tracks in Ohio, New York, Florida, and finally Kentucky. In 1979, Michael Klein, an aspiring singer/songwriter living in New York City, was broke, friendless, and drinking too much.
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