![]() ![]() A lot of the darker poems were written during that week, and the ones that are more about me feeling like I can do anything were written when I got myself out of the hole. It was a hard week for me and that's where on the one hand I was celebrating an accomplishment, but it felt fake, not knowing if I could really afford this thing I had been working towards. Tell me, were there weaknesses and fears and vulnerabilities you grappled with while writing this?ĭALLAS ATHENT: At one point during this I was laid off from my job the same week I was closing on my apartment. I don't see a lot of work that encounters radical self strength with such bravado. LISA MARIE BASILE: There's not a lot of subversion here, although on first read I thought there was. Light doesn't always win because it is "good," per say, it wins because making art is a struggle for our dark matter to be connected to higher powers. This book is really a study of both states. Dark matter is that which makes us mortal. Light elements are things that are connected to the divine, the higher powers, spirituality. After my studies ofThe Golden Dawn and Platonic elements, I began believing instead in light and dark. Was that a conscious choice?ĭALLAS ATHENT: I used to believe in good and evil. ![]() Except here, the light always seems to win. It's bikinis versus god and bars versus transcendence and the problematic versus self-empowerment. I am addicted to it and your work explores it so well. ![]()
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