The East Side of it All in Bloomington, MN

Dandurand’s work tackles complicated personal and social issues by drawing on his observations of the natural world. His voice is lyrical yet intimate, obscured yet sitting with you at the kitchen table having a cigarette.
The East Side of It All
is the journey of a broken man gifted with stories and poems who finally accepts his gift and shares with the world his hidden misery and joy:
there was this woman that I fell in love
with but she will never know who I am and I hide
in the back of the room as she goes about her thing
and I go about mine, and once I tried to look
into her eyes but when she looked back, I knew
she was a spirit and I was still a human and she passed
right through me and I felt the coldness of her