Open Ticket
the post-mortem sketches
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Amor Fati "Increasingly disillusioned with life..." the author committed suicide on the eve of his ___ birthday. Or he committed himself to his greatest work before his exile to a state sanitorium to begin a life of struggle. His research made plain to those fascinated by Egyptology that each episode was more than just a bit self-destructive. It helps to think of that period not so much as a moral crisis but as a mythic landscape one traverses en route to somewhere even nearer.
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PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MENTAL PATIENT Caught in a slow-motion free fall that drops him in the tunnels of a lunatic asylum in the last century, the poet tunes to a faint broadcast where sunlight has not penetrated for millennia. There he returns to himself as a young noble wandering between underworld kingdoms in search of his origin.
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Poet Geoff Peterson (1946- ) spent two years in psychiatric hospitals for treatment of personality disorder. Four years after his release, he found sobriety and commenced to repair, earning degrees and launching a career in teaching. In addition to publishing, he founded the Actors' Mission in 2003. Father of two grown daughters, he lives in the Southwest and performs scenes thought to be taken from real life. Open Ticket is his 29th book.