Abbiamo cercato di compiere un’operazione di archeologia poetica. O meglio, abbiamo voluto scavare fra pile di libri ammassati che il tempo lascia al suo passare sino a estrarre tre antichi tomi, tre volumi probabilmente dimenticati: le poesie di David P. Barnitz, Eric S. Stenbock e Algernon C. Swinburne, tre poeti decadentisti, letti come se fossero poeti contemporanei, forse sconosciuti ma ascoltati e letti per caso, qui presentati per l...

Anyone who reads The Book of Jade will quickly notice a few things: the author of this collection of poems holds a pessimistic, misanthropic view of life, and his obsessions lean towards the macabre, particularly focusing on themes of death, darkness, graves, corpses, and a longing to rest among the worms. The collection presents a world where God is portrayed as foolish, other people as imbeciles, and the fate of the dead as something to be envied. Certainly not light-hearted far...

Anyone who reads The Book of Jade will quickly notice a few things: the author of this collection of poems holds a pessimistic, misanthropic view of life, and his obsessions lean towards the macabre, particularly focusing on themes of death, darkness, graves, corpses, and a longing to rest among the worms. The collection presents a world where God is portrayed as foolish, other people as imbeciles, and the fate of the dead as something to be envied. Certainly not light-hearted fare! Althou...

In "The Book of Jade," David Park Barnitz crafts a strikingly modernist collection of poems that eloquently intertwine themes of beauty, transience, and spiritual contemplation. Influenced by the Symbolist movement, Barnitz employs vivid imagery and rich symbolism to explore the complexities of human experience and the nature of existence. The poems reflect a yearning for transcendence, using the jade stone as a metaphor for the resolve and endurance found in life's fleeting moments. The l...

David Park Barnitz is a poet known for his book "The Book of Jade" which describes a masterpiece of decadent and nihilistic verse. This book is the only one published in his name with a theme of dark vision, rhythm, and rhyme. A piece of art for people interested in poems and artistic writing that pierce the soul.