The Author Reviews *Patriotism* For Electric Literature

August 18th, 2010  |  Published in Electric Literature, Erotica Et Cetera, Nihon, Signs, The Terrifying Frangibility Of The Human Corpus  |  1 Comment

Read the review on The Outlet.

In this review:

  • A quotation from Benjamin Franklin
  • Brief review of Mishima’s powers as poet and logician
  • Lust and death-lust* (*”Death Lust” = good band name, sans hyphen, perhaps sans the A in “death,” so making it “DETH LUST,” probably all caps)
  • EVEN MORE

In this blog post:

  • BONUS image of Mishima Yukio, looking like a pensive young genius:

Responses

  1. David Wiggin says:

    August 18th, 2010 at 2:56 pm (#)

    The thing about Mishima is that he’s so damn brilliant I sometimes wonder if his whole facistothanatophilia thing wasn’t just a giant piece of performance art or viral marketing ploy. But probably not…

    Like you said: “Professional weirdo.”

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