Spent a lot of time on this. Happy with the result. Felt honored...
Spent a lot of time on this. Happy with the result. Felt honored to have interviewed him.
really great interview with Dennis Cooper about his new poetry book The Weaklings (XL)
In my writing, I try to study the imagination, and what is the imagination and what is not. Most of the stuff that happens in my books is about the imagination, and is framed as a kind of theater or fantasy or dream. Most of the stuff in the books is not really happening. So I made a decision, because I was fascinated by all this stuff – but I’m not a bad person – that I was going to let my imagination do whatever it wanted, and I wasn’t going to be afraid of it. If I wanted to think about killing somebody, then I would let myself imagine it and not judge it.
http://thefanzine.com/i-really-really-hate-nostalgia-juliet-escoria-interviews-dennis-cooper/
