Taylor Mead, A Simple Country Girl

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

block¿if 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 stage¿in 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.