{"product_id":"9780976435907","title":"Taylor Mead, A Simple Country Girl","description":"Taylor Mead's fourth book--his best and funniest book--and his first\u003cp\u003ebook in twenty years, \"Taylor Mead, a Simple Country Girl,\" is a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecollection of poems that are bright, ephemeral, and brilliant downtown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce Poet Laureate of Andy Warhol's Factory and now an indomitable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoctogenarian, Taylor Mead has recently been seen in Jim Jarmusch's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elatest, \"Coffee and Cigarettes.\" He's a renowned actor, having\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eappeared in innumerable underground classics from Warhol's \"Lonesome\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCowboys\" to the first film of the Beat generation, \"The Flower Thief.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn stage he created the title role in Frank O'Hara's \"The General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturns from One Place to Another\" and Michael McClure's \"Spider\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRabbit.\" Taylor Mead continues to be the most avant poet on the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eblock¿if he were in Japan, he'd be a National Treasure. Here, he's got\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea weekly cocktail gig at the Bowery Poetry Club (every Friday at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6:30).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho but Taylor Mead could possibly head the list of a series of books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epublished under the Bowery Poetry Club imprint? Described by the New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYork Times as \"that beacon on the Bowery\" and proclaimed \"the best\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epoetry club in the world\" by the Village Voice, the BPC has launched\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith YBK Publishers a series of books of and on poetry that will bring\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe freshest poetry to center stage¿in fact, much of the work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoriginates right on stage at the Club. Continuing the series of books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill bring you the Club's Bartenders, complete with poetry recipes and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Bowery Girls,\" five young women poets of the Bowery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YBK Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49849748619504,"sku":"9780976435907","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780976435907","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}