The book I wrote in State College in the 90s (Answered Prayers and Willard Preachers) manifests the blatant influence of the French Symbolist poets, principally Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. When I wrote the book ('95-'98), I wasn't necessarily ready for Keats, Wordsworth, and Milton yet. The acid-headed, hallucinatory antics of the Symbolists, however, were germane to me then very much. It helped that 90s State College was an acid-headed (or shroom-headed) kind of place, and the general ambiance was a phantasmagoric one.
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