About the Book
The unique poetry of Alan Reed was written to acknowledge and embrace his illness of manic depressive syndrome. He looks on it not as a liability, but as an opportunity to create something poignant and beautiful for readers to consider.
As a result, he has captured rare and wondrous ideas, thoughts and concepts in a manner never before associated with this form of mental illness. Eyes Blue is truly eye opening.
This colorful collection of verse and prose, Eyes Blue, or Random Meanderings of a Manic Depressive will take you on a heartfelt and introspective journey. The book’s overriding message is really quite simple: Acceptance is the way to inner peace.
About the Author
Alan Reed is a retired U.S. diplomat who grew up in White Salmon, Washington. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle and lived there for 10 years before entering the Peace Corps in 1978. He became a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in 1990 and served at U.S. embassies in Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, Egypt, Bangladesh, Paraguay and Brazil. The author currently lives in Grand Prairie, Texas, and is working on another collection of short stories and poems, Eyes Blue 2.