.perfumegenius' new album is out tomorrow. In the latest edition of Book Club, he spoke with sad13 about his love literature and how it informs his work
. I thought it was going to be a recurring thing that happened each record, but after the second I haven’t sung a poem.
I loved the Sharon Olds poems because they’re sometimes sensational in a way I could see people being dismissive of. When you’re being confessional or telling a major truth, people can be dismissive—that it’s exploitative or something. Of course that can be true but I think there’s something fucked up about that kind of dismissal, and usually it’s a feminine person they’re dismissing. So that’s what resonated to me about a lot of her poems.
I do remember I bought a book of poetry by serial killers, with drawings they made in jail. And I dropped it mid-reading, because it was so dark-sided I didn’t even want to touch the book anymore. It made me think about why I bought the book, and what’s driving me to watch and read and listen to these things.I don’t think we’ve ever read the same book! A book I really wanted him to read wasby Fiona Mozley, probably my most recommended book of the past few years.
in Seattle, and I don’t think I have a store that I think of in that way in L.A. If I’d done this interview 10 years ago, I would have more to say than I do now, and twenty years ago even more to say! When I was a teenager I would skip school and go to the public library and just sit there, and when I moved to New York [City] that’s where I’d go. Every day I would take the train to the library and sit and spend hours there.
the most in New York—it felt foreign to me, the same way New York felt foreign, so there was a weird parallel.
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