The red leaves of night

St. John, David

Possession and loss, rapture and despair. David St. John's narrator remains unflinchingly aware that the trajectory between these two states is brief. Like a modern Dante's Virgil, he guides us through a mosaic of experiences, each more intense and illuminating than the one before. Once our journey commences, its central purpose soon becomes clear: to limn the vast architecture of erotic desire and communion.

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