Going Out Dancing: Poems

Diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in February 1999, Ric Masten has survived for nine years and counting. For decades, Masten's unique mix of minstrel ministry and poetic philosophy has challenged and inspired audiences in many settings conferences, colleges, schools, and churches across the country. These poems reveal his humorous, unflinching, and edgy take on mortality and living with illness.

Troubadour poet and folk singer Ric Masten became a Unitarian Universalist minister in 1971. In his pioneer ministry, Masten has become known nationwide as a traveling musical ambassador of liberal religion. Fighting cancer since 1999, he keeps an online journal documenting his in a home that he built himself in the Palo Colorado Canyon in California's Big Sur country.