| Author: | Christopher Teese | ISBN: | 9781310555114 |
| Publisher: | Christopher Teese | Publication: | March 15, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Christopher Teese |
| ISBN: | 9781310555114 |
| Publisher: | Christopher Teese |
| Publication: | March 15, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
'The Death of Gemini' is a concept poetry book, constructed in a similar manner as the idea of a 'concept-album.' The poems in 'The Death of Gemini' are not stand-alone, but are placed in a sequence implying a specific story.
The concept of 'The Death of Gemini' focuses on a lonely, depressed young man who has no acquaintances or friends, and depends excessively on others, finding himself constantly dragged through everyone else's stories in life. Ever since he was a teenager, he's been writing fictional tales of a character he created named 'Gemini.' He dreams of becoming a famous author someday, and Gemini being known and loved by the world as much as he loves her, but he is too scared to show his stories to anyone, for fear he's no good. He hides her stories away, and eventually kills her off in one final story, ready to give up and let his dream die for good.
Then one day he discovers an up-and-coming celebrity actress named 'Gemini Chastain,' who coincidentally looks exactly like his description of the character he's been writing since age 14. The bizarre coincidence begins to mess with his mind, making him question everything he's ever thought about life, fate, destiny, and meaning, to the point of becoming pathologically obsessed with her possibly being the one to provide him with the Salvation he's longed for his entire life.
Life will not take him so easily toward her, however, and as everything he thinks he knows and believes is further turned upside down, so, too, will the Gemini dream reveal it's dual faces: Comforter and Tormentor, as he comes to further question life, and ultimately the things that are truly worth living for.
'The Death of Gemini' is a concept poetry book, constructed in a similar manner as the idea of a 'concept-album.' The poems in 'The Death of Gemini' are not stand-alone, but are placed in a sequence implying a specific story.
The concept of 'The Death of Gemini' focuses on a lonely, depressed young man who has no acquaintances or friends, and depends excessively on others, finding himself constantly dragged through everyone else's stories in life. Ever since he was a teenager, he's been writing fictional tales of a character he created named 'Gemini.' He dreams of becoming a famous author someday, and Gemini being known and loved by the world as much as he loves her, but he is too scared to show his stories to anyone, for fear he's no good. He hides her stories away, and eventually kills her off in one final story, ready to give up and let his dream die for good.
Then one day he discovers an up-and-coming celebrity actress named 'Gemini Chastain,' who coincidentally looks exactly like his description of the character he's been writing since age 14. The bizarre coincidence begins to mess with his mind, making him question everything he's ever thought about life, fate, destiny, and meaning, to the point of becoming pathologically obsessed with her possibly being the one to provide him with the Salvation he's longed for his entire life.
Life will not take him so easily toward her, however, and as everything he thinks he knows and believes is further turned upside down, so, too, will the Gemini dream reveal it's dual faces: Comforter and Tormentor, as he comes to further question life, and ultimately the things that are truly worth living for.
