MERRICK, N.Y., April 26, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Everything humans know about life on Earth and outer space is a lie! At least it is according to author Rick Smith. His new book, Legions of Light/Armies of Darkness (now available through AuthorHouse), is an autobiographical account of alien involvement told through daring, controversial, surreal verse.
"This is not a book of tame crafted poetry that wafts its meaning through poetic device, but hits the reader more like a machine gun blasting bullets of blood and guts observation and relentless social commentary through (my) experience," Smith says.
Legions of Light/Armies of Darkness is an inspired book of verse that stems from Smith's work dealing with the "Abduction Phenomena, extraterrestrial intervention and all the raging fires in between known as 'an experiment in humanity.'" Through his poems, Smith invites readers into a strange world and life that involves bizarre anomalies. Within the book, this "teacher of the masses" explores his deep relationship with a bipedal preying mantis known as "Mother." Acting as a conduit for her, he has gleaned the secrets of the planet and the level with which extraterrestrials have been involved, for good and ill, in the fate of humanity.
Through his poetry, Smith's story unfolds as a manifesto. He details his calling in life as a teacher "raging against the coldness and blindness of the world, the calculating deprivation of truth by 'the powers that be' and the terrible sin of apathy the masses evidence." A self proclaimed son of the Matriarchy who battles the reptilian overlords of the Patriarchal Order, he chronicles his journey to the truth through poems of blunt honesty, unrelenting violence and tenderness expressed for his alien lover and his human hybrid child and told through a rapid fire discourse meant to challenge and bend readers' minds.
Ranging in diverse areas of current affairs and offering far-reaching implications, Legions of Light/Armies of Darkness hits "with an irresistible honesty, like a breath of fresh air bearing the fruits of absolute truth."
A renowned commercial artist and lecturer on the paranormal, Smith has been "downloading" extraterrestrial information and turning it into visual and literary expressions since the 1990s. A graduate of the State University of New York at Old Westbury College and Farmingdale College, he has been the owner of a successful graphic design business, Smith & Smyth Creations LLC, for the past 10 years. For more information, visit his Web sites at www.UFOteacher.com and www.RickSmithLegionsArmies.com.
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