John
Taylor
The Apocalypse
Tapestries
ISBN 1-879378-51-5 (paper)
ix, 126 pages, $15.00
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 Revelations.
St. John & the angel
Tenture de l'Apocalypse, 16th century
Chateau d'Angers, France
JOHN TAYLOR is an American from Iowa living in France. He is the author of five collections of stories and short prose, including Now the Summer Came to Pass, winner of the Three Oaks Fiction Prize. His essays on contemporary French prose and poetry were published in 2004 as Paths to Contemporary French Literature.
Reviews
"Blending poetry and prose, Taylor shows a notable breadth of vision and voice, moving unpredictably among places and times, recalling characters, dialogues from his first years in Europe - the lost souls seeking renewal in Greece (on Samos, near Patmos, where St. John composed his work), the young Bible thumper in Copenhagen, the denizens of the red-light district in Hamburg." ~ Jason Weiss, Chelsea No. 78.
"The Apocalypse Tapestries is a beautiful, spell binding collection of prose and poetry that literally sweeps you up in its subtle language... This is a rewarding book that will get you reflecting on the paths of your own life, the roads taken, and those passed by." ~ Michelle Priotta, The Connexion, August 2005
"These poems enact a genuine search for revelation, not an unveiling from a single source but rather from small, local glimpses, as if the truth were broken up and scattered in unlikely places... The reader finishes The Apocalypse Tapestries with the pleasure of having read something moving, probing, and significant." ~ Carl Dennis
"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... 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... I have the sense that The Apocalypse Tapestries is destined to become a minor classic." ~ Larry Woiwode
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