Interview With Author douglas cole
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve written 6 poetry collections and an award-winning novel.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Cabin at the End of the World
It’s a book reflecting many of the tumultuous changes and turbulent events of the last five years, distilled down to prose poems, dreams, in a kind of dirty surrealism.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Pen and paper for me!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Charles Simic
Joy Harjo
Richard Hugo
What are you working on now?
Another book of poetry based on Guy Debord’s notion of the dérive.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My website: https://douglastcole.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/douglas.cole.372
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/duderonimous/
X: https://twitter.com/TheShadow_man
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Balance your freedom to write whatever and however you want with conscious awareness of your influences.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Get off the subject (R.Hugo).
What are you reading now?
Spy of the First Person (Shepard)
Upstream (Oliver)
What’s next for you as a writer?
Toppermost of the Poppermost.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Making Certain it Goes On
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Spy of the First Person
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