Böcker av Ted Volcin

This volume of poetry reflects the periods of profound anxiety, uncertainty and fear during a time when the author was confronted with very challenging obstacles. The spontaneous reminiscence brings up different meanings and aspects of our lives. The work is a meditation about our existences and their senses and about our roles and our relations with the people that we love. It is also about the revelations of maturity that give our mentors and societies' heroes different meanings. Some of the heroes' images will melt down showing them as "Wax Heroes". Many malefic forces in the society are proved to have behind them human characters.

Once upon a time we putThe mad at the end of the villageWe enchained themLike wild beastsAnd beat them to death Once upon a timeWe built the AsylumsAnd surrounded them withTall wallsBighting wireAnd isolationTed Volcin's poetry has always explored his inner life and feelings as he attempted to immerse himself in the struggles of those around him.In a debut collection of thoughtful poems, Volcin shares a profound, philosophical meditation about the meaning of madness across humanity and life itself while shining a light on the brutality surrounding the centuries-long isolation of mentally ill people from the rest of society. His poems offer a raw, candid look into life inside mental institutions where its occupants must endure unthinkable torture while precariously hanging on the edge of human darkness.Asylums is a volume of poetry that provides a lyrical glimpse into the lives of hundreds of the anonymous forgotten, neglected, and forsaken asylum heroes.