Taylor Mead, a Simple Country Girl

Taylor Mead's fourth book--his best and funniest book--and his first
book in twenty years, "Taylor Mead, a Simple Country Girl," is a
collection of poems that are bright, ephemeral, and brilliant downtown
Zen.

Once Poet Laureate of Andy Warhol's Factory and now an indomitable
octogenarian, Taylor Mead has recently been seen in Jim Jarmusch's
latest, "Coffee and Cigarettes." He's a renowned actor, having
appeared in innumerable underground classics from Warhol's "Lonesome
Cowboys" to the first film of the Beat generation, "The Flower Thief."
On stage he created the title role in Frank O'Hara's "The General
Returns from One Place to Another" and Michael McClure's "Spider
Rabbit." Taylor Mead continues to be the most avant poet on the
blockif he were in Japan, he'd be a National Treasure. Here, he's got
a weekly cocktail gig at the Bowery Poetry Club (every Friday at
6:30).

Who but Taylor Mead could possibly head the list of a series of books
published under the Bowery Poetry Club imprint? Described by the New
York Times as "that beacon on the Bowery" and proclaimed "the best
poetry club in the world" by the Village Voice, the BPC has launched
with YBK Publishers a series of books of and on poetry that will bring
the freshest poetry to center stagein fact, much of the work
originates right on stage at the Club. Continuing the series of books
will bring you the Club's Bartenders, complete with poetry recipes and
"The Bowery Girls," five young women poets of the Bowery.