The Mean Season (La Saison De Moyenne) marks the first considerable collection of poetry by Tim Speaker. Garnered from several weathered notebooks spanning a nearly decade long period, The Mean Season represents the culmination of several years of tumult informed by multiple agonizing surgeries, grievous partings to youth, and the proverbial search for the self. The poetry reflects this period of restless wanderlust and the painful manifestation of a young man finding himself, often in the form of mystical ravings from a sickbed.