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"The purpose of a journey is the experience, not the destination; thus the spirit’s wanderings can be long indeed, with the only motive to spread joy. This book and the one that follows represent my life’s work. I wrote Fallen Empire after completing Out of Exile, which represents my attempt to recapture the internal harmonics that flowed so freely in my youth."

-Ted Torgersen

 

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"Whimsical, melancholy, and death-laden songs make up this tuneful collection of poetry. Much of Torgersen’s verse has a singsong quality, with strong meters and rhymes, repetitive choruses, and the use of dialect..." continue reading this review HERE

 
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Ted Torgersen graduated cum laude in 1971 from UCLA with a degree in English. He is not known at all as a result of his being banned in his senior year at university for his part in clearing the name of a prominent faculty member who was framed for causing a jailbreak at the height of the civil rights upheaval. There is reason for speculation that his suppression as a writer started before that...