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A Time To Cry: A Poetic Memoir of Madness, Depression, and Unrequited Love
A journey through the life and mind of the author as he battled mental illness and romantic failure.
138 pages, Paperback
First published September 26, 2006
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January 17, 2026
A Time To Cry is an unflinching poetic memoir that documents one man’s struggle with mental illness, emotional isolation, and longing for love that remains painfully out of reach. Rather than shaping experience into polished artifice, Paul Kloschinsky presents his life honestly, often uncomfortably so, allowing vulnerability to become the collection’s defining strength.
The poems read like fragments of a mind in motion: hopeful, despairing, reflective, and broken, sometimes all within the same page. The language is direct and personal, capturing the relentless internal dialogue that accompanies depression and romantic obsession. There is no attempt to beautify suffering; instead, the work insists on truth over elegance.
What makes A Time To Cry compelling is its emotional courage. Kloschinsky does not write from distance or hindsight alone, but from immersion within the struggle itself. The poems convey the exhausting repetition of mental illness, the cycles of hope, disappointment, fixation, and self-doubt that often go unseen by others.
At its heart, this book is about isolation: the loneliness of unreturned love, the stigma surrounding mental health, and the quiet desperation of wanting to be understood. Yet within that darkness lies a powerful act of connection. By giving voice to experiences many endure silently, the collection becomes a mirror for readers who have felt similarly lost.
A Time To Cry is not a comfortable book, but it is an honest one. It stands as testimony to the necessity of expression, reminding readers that sometimes survival itself is an act of defiance, and writing becomes a way to stay alive.
The poems read like fragments of a mind in motion: hopeful, despairing, reflective, and broken, sometimes all within the same page. The language is direct and personal, capturing the relentless internal dialogue that accompanies depression and romantic obsession. There is no attempt to beautify suffering; instead, the work insists on truth over elegance.
What makes A Time To Cry compelling is its emotional courage. Kloschinsky does not write from distance or hindsight alone, but from immersion within the struggle itself. The poems convey the exhausting repetition of mental illness, the cycles of hope, disappointment, fixation, and self-doubt that often go unseen by others.
At its heart, this book is about isolation: the loneliness of unreturned love, the stigma surrounding mental health, and the quiet desperation of wanting to be understood. Yet within that darkness lies a powerful act of connection. By giving voice to experiences many endure silently, the collection becomes a mirror for readers who have felt similarly lost.
A Time To Cry is not a comfortable book, but it is an honest one. It stands as testimony to the necessity of expression, reminding readers that sometimes survival itself is an act of defiance, and writing becomes a way to stay alive.
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