JOHN URBAN
GNOMENS
True Ideas, angelic, androgynous.
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Bright, masculine Time; dark, feminine Space.
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Any thought, no matter how false, if it is a thought, is true.
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The World fiddles while the World burns.
JOHN URBAN was born at Fort Jefferson, Missouri. He attended schools in Alaska, Wyoming, and California, graduating from San Jose State College, California with a degree in Physics, minors in Philosophy and Creative Writing. His interests and influences include Classical Metaphysics and Modern Spirituality—he considers his work to be in the Romantic Tradition of Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens, but distinguishes it as Transcendental Romanticism.