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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:
Bey's poetic 'texts' and poems have appeared in: P.A.N.; Panthology One, Two, and Three; Ganymede; Exquisite Corpse; 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 Many of these poems, including the 'Sandburg' series, are collected in the as-yet unpublished DogStar volume.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).
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