Aug 9, 2018
“When I say I’ve been sober for
21 years, I mean entirely sober. I stopped smoking, I stopped
drinking, I stopped drugs I stopped everything. I haven’t had a cup
of tea.
I stopped every single stimulant and thing that could in any
way alter my behaviour. I am that kind of person. I’m an all or
nothing person. I was ALL. I was a polyglot user of anything I
could get hold of, in any amount I could and then I
stopped.”
In the second part of this conversation with poet, vegan, anarchist and pacifist John Kinsella he speaks of personal redemption and his daily efforts towards the ‘secular ascension’ noted in his work by American literary critic and Yale academic Harold Bloom.
Sincere thanks to John Kinsella for agreeing to this interview.
"We are poised before...what I prophesy will be a major
art."
Harold Bloom, on John Kinsella’s Peripheral Light: Selected and New
Poems
Published July 2005