You think you know me, my friend, and in many ways this is truer than even you can imagine. And yet, the deepest truth lies in the fact that you do not know me at all. One day, however, if you listen closely to the words that throb inside you like the pulse of a disembodied heart, you will. Let the others have their rumors, their deceptions and their lies. None of this matters now, for you will carry with you as many of my secrets as any man shall ever bear. You will be my eternity, my silent legacy in this world, when I am long gone. We stand upon the brink of a precipice. We peer into the abyss. we grow sick and dizzy. Our first impulse is to shrink from the danger. Unaccountably we remain. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and we are destroyed. It is my hope, dear friend, that you, above all others living still, will not forget me. Death by the Visitation of God is a journey into the mind, heart and soul of Edgar Allen Poe. This is your chance to see the man as he was, not as your high school literature textbooks portrayed him. Poe loved intensely in the face of great loss, even as he struggled to be the writer whose words endured and gained in popularity long after death had claimed him. See him as the brilliant and passionate genius who was thwarted, not aided, by a guardian (for Allen was never a father to him) who set him up for failure even as he denounced him for his failings. See him as a loving husband shattered by the loss of a young wife to whom he was intensely devoted, and as a son mourning for a mother he barely knew yet whose corpse he sat beside for three days as her body grew cold and the toddler that he was could do nothing to bring her back from the abyss. Walk with him once more to Moldavia, and remember him. This site is a promotional website for the play "Death by the Visitation of God" which is a play about the life of Edgar Allan Poe. 8pm Friday and Saturday 3pm Sunday Matthew Corzine Studio Theatre at Times Square Arts Center 300 West 43rd Street Suite #502