The Apocalypse Tapestries - Softcover

Taylor, John

9781879378513: The Apocalypse Tapestries

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1879378515 ISBN 13: 9781879378513

Publisher: Xenos Books, 2004

Poems, prose poems and reflections, some inspired by memories of travels and everyday life, others by old tapestries of St. John writing the Book of Revelation. The title refers to the "Apocalypse Tapestries" conserved in the Ch�teau of Angers. This book has been translated into Italian (Gli Arazzi dell'Apocalisse, trans. Marco Morello, I quaderni di Hebenon, 2006) and is forthcoming in French (La Fontaine invisible, trans. Fran�oise Daviet, �ditions Tarabuste).

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From the Back Cover:

"This book is not only a modern commentary on the Bible and Tradition, but a centuries-old Pilgrim's Progress woven with the author's life--in the patterns of the tapestries that he has studied and recorded--a pictograph that sets the scene for both the Millennium and its traducing opposite, the Apocalypse. Taylor's language is as unbiased and simple as the rocks and shards and scoria and petrified wood bits that I see in my driveway every day. The prose and poetry are sometimes very French in their formal audacity, but they also illustrate a hands-open simplicity that only an American from the heart of America's inner country could imagine. I have the sense that The Apocalypse Tapestries is destined to become a minor classic."--Larry Woiwode

About the Author:

John Taylor is an American from Iowa who has lived in France since 1977. He is the author of seven collections of stories and short prose, including Now the Summer Came to Pass, soon to appear as an e-book from Xenos Books. His essays on contemporary French prose and poetry have been published in three volumes as Paths to Contemporary French Literature. He has translated the work of several French poets as well, notably Philippe Jaccottet, Pierre-Albert Jourdan, and Jacques Dupin.

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