The Second Dance

About the Book

Collected poetry of a lifetime can be so easily lost in drawers unopened and piles thrown out subsequent to the trauma of a family members passing. This book represents my effort to arrest that likelihood. Although some of this collection has been published in journals and anthologies, those vehicles fade into the dustbins of time. My hope is that The Second Dance will be kept and read at least by my family members for a generation or two.

Anytime we drove past a cemetery my father used to say,” there rest the bones of the people the world couldn’t do without.” I share no such delusion. When my role on this stage ends I will joyfully exit leaving only a few lines behind. These are those lines.

About the Author

Mr. Schwesinger's fiction and poetry express his personal discoveries involving multi-cultural mythologies and the human experience while he was engaged in health and social services in the Middle East, Far East, Africa and other locations. Until January of 2005 he served as Director of Program and Research Development for the Cardiac and Vascular Institute at New York University's School of Medicine, where he also co-founded Project Kids Worldwide. Traveling extensively throughout the world, he has lectured and implemented numerous international disease prevention programs and medical advancements. He now pursues a long intended goal – conveying in his literary endeavors what he came to understand of the human condition.