With poetry that is fresh and relevant for modern readers, "Holy Hell" is many-dimensional yet accessible. Contemplative states of consciousness are grounded in everyday life, relationships, and Whelan's intense personal experiences with disease (he had leukemia as a child) and death. Each poem represents an authentic struggle for meaningfulness in today's world. An enjoyable and thought-provoking read. S. W. Whelan's new book of grippingly innovative poetry, 'Holy Hell,' is one that will literally blow your mind. He masterfully brings the mysteriously confusing wonder of our collective unconscious world into a genuine, heartful meeting with our conscious mind's desire to grasp life's existential meanings...then twists and turns their shared perspectives in ways that bring those meanings alive and feed us at all levels of our hungry awareness. If you are open to playing in the underlying paradoxes of life and diving into the existential mystery of it all, this book will feed your soul. --Bill Bauman, Ph.D., Founder of the Center for Soulful Living S. W. Whelan lives in East Brunswick, NJ. As a professional organizational management consultant and theorist, his main interest is the integration of meditation practice into modern life. Also, he is in the process of becoming a certified kundalini yoga teacher. A prose writer for many years, he was compelled to start writing poetry when he started having dreams about entire poems that had no existence in the waking world. S. W. Whelan is a kundalini yoga teacher and organizational management consultant who lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He has been writing poetry ever since, ten years ago, he started to have dreams where he had complete knowledge of poems that did not previously exist in the waking world. Used Book in Good Condition