Peter Lamborn Wilson
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Peter Lamborn Wilson is a political writer, poet, and self-described "anarchist ontologist". He sometimes writes under the name Hakim Bey (which may mean "Mr Judge" in Turkish, and which may or may not have been a name-of-convenience used by other radical writers since the 1970s).
He is reputed to have spent two years in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and seven years in Iran, being forced to flee by the fall of the Shah. In the past he has worked with the not-for-profit publishing project Autonomedia, in Brooklyn, New York.
Among many highly influential essays on Tong traditions and Temporary Autonomous Zones, Bey has written about such figures as the utopian Charles Fourier and the connections between Sufism and ancient Celtic culture. He has also written essays on the nature of sacred pederasty in the Sufi tradition.
He has written the following books and pamphlets:
- The winter calligraphy of Ustad Selim, & other poems (1975) ISBN 0903880059
- Divan (1978) ASIN B0006DZLP0
- Angels (1980) ISBN 0500110174
- CHAOS: The broadsheets of ontological anarchism (1985) (as Hakim Bey)
- Kings of Love: The Poetry and History of the Ni'Matullahi Sufi Order (1985) ISBN 0877737339
- Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy (1988) ISBN 0936756152
- The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry (1988) ISBN 0933999658
- TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (1991) (as Hakim Bey) ISBN 0936756764, ISBN 1570271518 -- also available as recorded CD read by author
- Radio Sermonettes (1992) (as Hakim Bey)
- Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics (as Hakim Bey)
- Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (1993) ISBN 0872862755
- The Little Book of Angels (Little Book) (1993) ISBN 1852304367
- O Tribe that Loves Boys: the poetry of Abu Nuwas (1993) (as Hakim Bey) ISBN 9080085731
- Angels: Messengers of the Gods (Art and Imagination) (1994) ISBN 0500810443
- Pirate Utopias (1995) ISBN 1570271585
- Immediatism (1996) (as Hakim Bey) ISBN 1873176422
- Millennium (1996) (as Hakim Bey) ISBN 1570270457
- The Little Book of Angel Wisdom (The "Little Books" Series) (1997) ISBN 1862040486
- Escape from the Nineteenth Century (1998) ISBN 1570270732
- Nasir-I Khusraw: 40 Poems from the Divan (1998) ISBN 0877737304
- Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in the City & the World (co-editor) (1999) ISBN 1570270929
- Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma (1999) ISBN 0872863263
- rain queer (2005) ISBN 0976634112
Bey's poetic 'texts' and poems have appeared in: P.A.N.; Panthology One, Two, and Three; Ganymede; Exquisite Corpse; the Nambla Bulletin; the various Acolyte Reader paperbacks. Many of these poems, including the 'Sandburg' series, are collected in the as-yet unpublished DogStar volume. Currently his works can be found regularly in publications like "Fifth Estate" and the NYC-based "First of the Month."
Bey's translations include a volume of the poems of Abu Nuwas, O Tribe That Loves Boys. He has also published at least one novel, Crowstone (Coltsfoot Press, 1983).
External links
- Many of his books and articles are available online here: The Writings of Hakim Bey (http://www.hermetic.com/bey/)
- Most of Wilson's political books are published by Autonomedia (http://www.autonomedia.org/)de:Hakim Bey