Lance D. Farmer pens poetry collection that bares dark secrets of traumatized mind
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – With a collection of elaborate and intriguing poems, Lance D. Farmer’s book titled “Twisted Wisdom” (published by Xlibris) bares and untangles the dark roots of a traumatized mind. Farmer’s journey through rehabilitation and therapy from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other emotional disorders has inspired him to share to other people that this experience is nothing to be afraid or ashamed of and to find the inner strength to improve one’s life from a dark void.
Farmer expresses that his poems are a reflection of his most intimate places, showing his uprising from the blackest despair into the light of hope. He was diagnosed with emotional disorders after his service in the US Navy. With this experience, the tragic events that he has witnessed have produced many dark demons in his mind and soul. However, “I, like many others, am seeking help to understand them, fix them, or live with them to improve my life,” the author explains.
“Twisted Wisdom” reaches to the readers, afflicted with PTSD or not, to know that “[you] are not alone in your struggles. Other people have been to those places where you go in your mind.” Ultimately, this poetry collection offers for readers to “find a piece of yourself among these pages.”
Farmer evaluates his experience in “Twisted Wisdom:” “If you’ve searched within yourself, seeking to find an answer, and don’t find it. It’s probably where you didn’t want to look.”
“Twisted Wisdom”
By Lance D. Farmer
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 78 pages | ISBN 9781514439371
E-Book | 78 pages | ISBN 9781514439364
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
Lance D. Farmer was born in 1961 in Boise, Idaho, but hails Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, as his hometown, where he graduated high school. From there, he joined the U.S. Navy. While departing the navy, he experienced a traumatic event. Yet to be diagnosed with PTSD and other emotional disorders, Farmer had more than 25 years of experience in commercial crab fishing out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. During this time, he worked in the Russian Okhotsk Sea, was a miner in Cameroon (Africa) and a commercial truck driver. While in Cameroon, he wed his current wife, Messougue Ambegdou (Bijoux) Sonia Farmer. Over his lifetime, he saw great success and total destruction due to self-medicating his PTSD symptoms. In August 2014, finding the Salt Lake City, Utah, Veterans Affairs (VA), he began rehab and intensive therapy. Still involved in therapy, he composed this book of introverted inspiration, "Twisted Wisdom."
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