Contending With the Dark / Against That Time

by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Ron Schreiber

" Contending with the Dark is as sure a first book as I've seen this decade. Modern, quick, idiomatic, exact, it should delight connoisseurs. But that's the least of it. It offers wisdom, a person, a love story, life against death. All that the ages keep asking of the poets, anciently."
—George Starbuck

"[Ron Schreiber's] poems are carried through by a prosody as subtle and varied as the life itself, responding in its hesitancies and halts, in its doubts, in its sudden grasp, in its space and sweep to the thought beneath."
—David Eberly, Boston Gay Review

"Schreiber Celebrates in the midst of his pain. I sense a fine almost animal energy, a magnetism… His loving and caring are frank, never sentimental, complete."
—Robert Peters, Small Press Review

86 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Jeffrey M. Schwartz is an American psychiatrist and researcher in the field of neuroplasticity and its application to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He is a proponent of mind–body dualism and appeared in the 2008 film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.