WORK by THOMAS LOWE TAYLOR

the following sent to Wryting-L by John M. Bennett. I've read some of The Homages, and it is lovely. Taylor's visual work is wonderful too. one way to support poetry is to buy the stuff (radical, but it just might work).

"The Homages was written between 1974 and 1976 one page at a time, on a daily basis. It is written almost entirely in unrhymed couplets on the theme of the quest for the beloved (“she whom we seek”) and is published only now in two volumes, running to a total of 900 pages, with illustrations. He has operated his anabasis Press since 1976, beginning with the publication of “Pisces, or the awakened feminine” under the pseudonym Tom Eagle through to “White Light, the lost vision of Montana.” (2001). He has published a wide range of experimental writers and visual poets, recently in association with Jim Leftwich’s xtant Books (Charlottesville VA). His writing is language driven and of a spiritual-cosmic nature which seeks to create a ‘passing beyond’ of experience which transcends the level of language inside the writing itself. He is widely published and appreciated within the small circle known as experimental writing and visual poetry and has also maintained a career as a fine art photographer, focusing in recent years on double exposed or multiple imagery. His papers are collected in the Avant Collection at the University of Ohio (Columbus) library under the control of Dr. John M. Bennett. He is retired and lives on the Long Beach Peninsula in southwestern Washington state in the village of Oysterville. The Homages is available from anabasis.xtant books, 1512 Mountainside Court, Charlottesville VA 22903, $100 for both volumes, postpaid.