Just reread an old interview I did with Miestra in about...2014? It has a lot of stuff about contemporary politics and a then-very-hot rivalry, but ends with...

"OE: Who's more of a babe: Daniel Vettori or Ross Taylor? and Which failed Soviet ideologue of the 1920s would you recruit to Talossa?

MS: Daniel Vettori was cute as anything when he was a 17 year old who resembled a taller Harry Potter. Do poets count as "failed ideologues'? If so, the answer is Mayakovsky."
"

Explosive claims.