Starting as a teenager in the 1980's, award-winning playwright and novelist Dennis Edelen began keeping a journal of poetry, mirroring his experiences and thoughts coming of age in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First centuries. This collection of the most significant pieces, spanning the years 1981 to 2011, presents a unique mosaic of an everyday life documented in an unusual and creative way. Drawing from influences as wide-ranging as classical literature and the First World War, modern music and the Romantic tradition, THREE DECADES/ONE LIFE is an intimate self-portrait framed in poetry and songs, creating a lyrical biography spanning thirty years.