John Thomas Allen
I think it comes down to an impasse with the way things are. If I can construct a few musically and meaningfully charged patches of words (sometimes referred to as stanzas), it will stand above the machinations that have made the Western world an authoritarian, force worshipping nightmare. That is enough to make me want to live most days.
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Decadent literature (especially those 1890s writers) really does seem to capture some spirit of apocalypse and decay that has kinship to our own time. Why do you think this is especially relevant now? What writers, old and new, should we be reading and where do you see this neo-decadent poetry headed?
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