Let Your Candle Burn All of the Way Out!

Let Your Candle Burn All of the Way Out! is a collection of James Xavier's poemsfrom 2014 or so until now. In his own words, he "began writing poetry as a stream ofconscious experiment in psychotic mania and has since turned it into a more or lesslucid form of art." The text also features the experimental narratives, Some PeopleWorry About the Weather and The Lost Continent. Some People Worry About theWeather follows the young pacifist, Iain Xavior, and is about political terrorism. The LostContinent is a surreal, almost dream-like depiction of Antoine Argot's interior monologueand informal essay on love and freedom.The poems in Let Your Candle Burn All of the Way Out! may delight or try you.They are mercurial and sublime. In ways, James Xavier takes an influence from theauthor of the anonymous text, Manifesto!, J.D. Salinger, and some of the politicalwritings to follow the dissolution of the Situationist International. In others, he hascreated a style which, for better or worse, is wholly his own. We hope that you will enjoyhis poems or take solace in them. At the very least, you are sure to find them interesting.