Describing the several chapbooks he published during the 1990s, Trueman wrote that "one is rather holy, one is rather profane, one is just flat out crazy, in other words they are 'language snapshots' of my slow and painful growth as an artist and writer."
Becoming a Writer
In 1979 Trueman became a father for the first time; it was an experience that changed his life. His son, Henry Sheehan, had complications at birth and was born with cerebral palsy. Trueman would first mine this experience for literary material in his long narrative poem, Sheehan, told from the point of view of a father of a sufferer from cerebral palsy. In the poem the reader shares the father's wonder and joy at the birth, then the pain of the realization that he may likely never be able to truly know his damaged son. "I really started the Sheehan poem at the time we were finally getting into court over our litigation on behalf of Sheehan and ourselves for what we felt was medical malpractice at his birth," Trueman told Patrick Michael Murphy in an interview for Inlander.
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