Pythia - The Poet Speaks
Pythia arose from The Education of a Young Gentleman , a nonfiction short story which tells of the late-night encounter between a 19-year-old boy and a 29-year-old married woman in a highly charged sexual atmosphere. She is fixed and unattainable at the conclusion of the poem, like the characters on Keats Grecian urn. Pythia says something about the strange magic of the woman and the encounter; the fusing of the mythological and the personal. I tried to distill feeling, emotion, what it is to be alive, and moments in life, in order to create an alternative world. My style tends to be sardonic. My words tend to be on the definite side, they don't caress each other. A w ord carves out a specific cultural niche. Reading a poem allows you to enter that world and those niches, albeit not always what the writer has in mind. My first sense of literature was from the 19 th century writers. My introduction into culture and politics was high school Latin. Pythia owes...