76 pages, 6x9 inch trim
"Ostensibly a volume of poems, this dense glossary packs the deep gratification of his best prose. But at its best, Gothick Institutions is neither poetry nor prose while obviously both—because buried in these pages we find wrinkled love letters from our spiritual ancestors reincarnated as the crinkly cartography of our future utopia." —Anu Bonobo, Fifth Estate, Winter 2006
from the book:
Remote Viewing
Imagine an alternate dimension where dervishes are roaming around America sects of Swedenborgian hobos etc. You're there camping in the graveyard long black hair in tangles, ghostwhite face. Peter Lamborn Wilson founded The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade on Pacifica Radio; taught many years at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University; and is a long-time member of the Autonomedia publishing collective in Brooklyn, New York. Author of Angels: An Illustrated Study (Thames & Hudson); Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (City Lights); Shower of Stars: Dream & Book in Sufism & Taoism (Autonomedia); etc. He Lived in Tehran, London and Manhattan before moving to upstate New York at the fin de siécle.
