My Poetry Through the Years

About the Book

When you purchase this book of poetry, you trace the very being of a lonely writer, laboring some 40 years and throughout God’s time span.

                        From 1963 to 2005 this “slave of words” has penned his heart and mind

                        toward everyone’s love and understanding regardless of the reader or

                        his/her status in life.

                        Anyone who purchases this book has taken the first step toward

                        understanding what can be accomplished in life.  No matter who you

                        are, life’s goals are attainable.

God bless those of you who did purchase this book.  May God look

down from Heaven and say, “Blessed be the pen slaves, for theirs is the kingdom of knowledge night after night and word after word . . . .”

                                                Sincerely,

                                                William Furr

About the Author

This book was written over several years in the lifetime of a man whose mind is mixed with genius and fraught with mental illness.

In elementary school, his teachers commented that “. . . he is in a trance or sort of daydreaming all the time.”  Yet, by the time he was fourteen he was in metaphysics.  He took sophomore English four times and never passed.  When William was eighteen, he began having seizures.

In 1963, neurologists in Memphis and New Orleans found that the frontal lobe of his brain is 25 to30 percent larger than the average individual.  The frontal lobe forms and stores all emotions.  In 1964 the most prominent psychiatrist in Memphis said that William “. . . the most hopeless case of schizophrenia I have ever seen . . . would keep getting worse, not better.”

With this background, William continued to write and stored his writing in bank vaults.  In 2005 William was in a devastating car accident in which he nearly lost his life.  After being hospitalized an entire month, he went home to recuperate.  Unfortunately, much of his memory was forgotten.

Recently, some of the personnel from Mississippi State University accompanied William to the bank vaults and discovered seven books which he had no recollection of writing.  My Poetry through the Years 1963 – 2005 is one of the seven books discovered. 

As you read this book, try to visualize how William overcame all the problems and seemingly insurmountable challenges against his ever penning a word.  Step

into his world and see what is possible.