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:

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.”