R. Joseph Capet

Author's Bio

R. Joseph Capet is a poet, playwright, and essayist whose work in English and Esperanto has been published in magazines in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. In addition to serving as a poetry editor for <i>P.Q. Leer</i>, he is also a tarotist, inhabitant of Colorado Springs, and the 25th cousin 12 times removed of Louis XVI.

Publications and Prizes

Journals:

Catholic Worker, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, decomP, Red River Review, Tattoo Highway, Terracotta Typewriter, The Eclectic Muse, The Maynard, Victorian Violet Press & Journal

Personal Favorites

Favorite Books:

Also Sprach Zarathustra, The Analects, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bible, The Book of Mormon, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, De Imitatio Christi, The Divine Comedy, Faust, Les Fleurs du Mal, The Hagakure, Jenseits von Gut und Böse, Lunar Baedecker, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Notre Dame de Paris, Poèmes Saturniens, The Prophet, The Puranas, Scènes de la de Bohème, Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love, Songs of Innocence and Experience, Die Straßen komme ich entlang gehweht, The Tao Te Ching, The Time Machine, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Favorite Authors:

H.C. Anderson, Marcus Aurelius, Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Ernst Blass, S.T. Coleridge, Aleister Crowley, Dante, Meister Eckhart, T.S. Eliot, Julius Evola, Théophile Gautier, Kahlil Gibran, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Lionel Johnson, Lady Julian, Thomas à Kempis, Kierkegaard, Mina Loy, Stéphane Mallarmé, F.T. Marinetti, Christopher Marlowe, Henry Murger, Gerard de Nerval, Nezahualcoyotl, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas de Quincey, Ayn Rand, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Paul Verlaine, H.G. Wells, W.B. Yeats

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Listing last updated: February 20, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Adults, Teenagers

Fluent in:

English, French, German

Born in:

Sacramento, CA

Raised in:

Colorado Springs, CO

Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews