The Martyrdom

THE MARTYRDOM: The Revenge of Art 1992-1994,

was written in the early nineteen-nineties. It is a Surrealist poem,

with modern text, with projective verse, made-up words, and

words made of capitals and small letters. It also had traditional

verses. It is the story of Julietta and Sebastian, as well as Godriella,

Tarketa, Xlara. There are six completed portions and two

unfinished. The fi fictional Communist Left, and its 13th President

FiLMer MiNerd, in the State of New Jerzip, is confronted

by DeMORePs. Originally a computer poem in BASIC, with

sound. Here only the text is printed.

STEPHEN SWEIGART has been writing poetry books for

50 years. He has worked at various jobs, primarily at a large

distributor, for 60 years. He has lived in the same house since

1985, near Philadelphia in New Jersey. He works part-time

still though a senior citizen. He is an audiophile, and gardener, and

studied classical piano at Temple and Rutgers Universities. He

has a BA in English from Temple University. He has traveled

often to Europe. He has also studied Psychiatry at Xavier and

The University of Pennsylvania.