Dark Soul of the Millennium Author:Mel Waldman Kafka, philosophers, and Freud, among others, are cited. Every poet has certain main pursuits that are unique to him or her. Edgar Allen Poe had several, such as a love for detective work. In Poe's case, he has invented the entire crime genre of fiction; and essentially, the character of Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Waldman's recurring subjects, contain... more »ed in this book, are psychiatry and his Jewish background, and like Poe, crime and detective work.« less