Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Thomas L. Taylor

Thomas L. Taylor passed away yesterday, Sunday the 13th. As many of you know, he had been struggling with cancer for over a year.
Tom has been a remarkably warm and generous friend and collaborator with many of us in this community even at the height of his illness, and has been an essential part of the avant writing community for many decades.

Jim Leftwich has put up a page where you can see some of his recent work:

http://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/

A guide to his collection here at OSU may be seen here:

http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/finding/thomastaylor.php

Additionally, his beautiful poem Tract was the centrefold of Synapse 3 and his poems appear in various other Post-Neo publications, and his collaborative book with bela is being distributed as it becoms financially feasible.

3 comments:

C Mehrl Bennett said...

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/seventy/3261486

for the final book of poetry Tom published through Luna Bisonte Prods
(at the age of seventy)

Robert said...

this is a complete shock to me...along with Matina Stamatakis, he was my absolute favourite contemporary writer...this is terribly sad news :(

Olchar E. Lindsann said...

Yes. In my view Tom was hands-down the best lyric poet working today, and a lovely man to correspond with. A great loss.