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A Second Coming : [birth of the poet] a memoir

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A terrifying descent into madness, the first fearful steps on the path to recovery, this uncompromising memoir captures all the urgent and hypnotic tension of a commercial thriller. A Second Coming -the companion volume to Swartz's great long-poem 'The Will to Christ"-is a probing investigation of the unconscious and metaphysical wellsprings of a singular poetic gift. And yet it is more. This story is without question the most accurate portrayal to date of the largely uncharted regions of schizophrenia, a compelling and solitary journey into yogic meditation and a massive abuse of cannabis non-indica. Swartz's manic delusion was the very overthrow of God and cleansing of the evolutionary process. After a twelve-day descent into terror, strapped to a hospital gurney, he emerges to an uncertain future and the realization that his whole experience was neither reality, nor, even more strangely, anything approaching fantasy.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780595378555
  • ISBN-10: 0595378552
  • Publisher: iUniverse
  • Publish Date: December 2005
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.51 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.74 pounds
  • Page Count: 224

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