The Anomolaic Press
The Anomolaic Press
The Anomolaic Press is a small independent press that specializes in the works of William Gay and J.M. White.
Announcing Michael’s soon to be released book
Visions Dreams and Hallucinations
Visions, Dreams and Hallucinations is the result of a lifetime of study and travel, learning to meditate with Theravadin and Zen monks, practicing visualization exercises with Tibetan masters, attending kachina dances at the Zuni and Taos pueblos, making pilgrimages to megalithic monuments, archaic ruins and ceremonial sites, standing in front of the paleolithic art in the caves of France and the apu stones at Machu Picchu, circumambulating the Jokhang in Lhasa, climbing the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, sitting on top of Monk’s mound at Cahokia, exploring the ancient shell rings of the Atlantic coast, standing at the navel of the world at Watson’s Brake, practicing the techniques of lucid dreaming, seeing great art in the magnificent museums of the world, studying with literary masters and visionary poets, experimenting with LSD, peyote and psychedelic mushrooms, finally sitting in the evening sun watching the deer in the meadow.
Praise for Finding The Lost Country: The Life of William Gay
“Some folks dwell in the shadow realms of the creative imagination, where synchronicity is as common as day and night, as sunlight and moonglow. William Gay and J.M. White are anomalies. There is no rational explaining of their lives, of their works. The self educated William Gay became a master of the Southern Gothic novel. The erudite J.M White did graduate study in Phenomenology at Duquesne University, holds an M.A. in philosophy from Vanderbilt, and is the author of eighteen books of poetry, essays, and biographies. The story of how Gay and White became friends and then White discovered, edited and published Gay’s lost manuscripts is real literary magic, a thing of mysterious beauty. FINDING THE LOST COUNTRY: The Life of William Gay by J.M. White, written in an accessible conversational style, is storytelling at its best, a gift, a masterpiece.”
– Ron Whitehead, U.S. National Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate
William Gay is one of this century’s greatest American writers and Michael White has done Gay’s enduring legacy a great service in this outstanding biography.
–Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling novelist