On the back cover and internet, it is stated that My name is Bill DiMichele. I'm originally from Pennsylvania, and have been doing visual poetry since the late 1970s. My first pieces were typeovers done on an old Smith Corona typewriter. In 1980 I moved to San Francisco where I worked at a graphics company, doing work on the various machines at my disposal, copiers, cameras, vacuum frames, printing presses, etc. I was coeditor of SCORE, magazine for visual poetry, with my friend Crag Hill, 1982-1990. I have been published in an endless number of small press magazines and blogs. I now publish Tip of the Knife (motto -- draw blood or go home). The piece I'm presenting is Fugue Dog The Ecstatic, a treatise on the nature of time and higher consciousness. Bill says: "Fugue Dog the Ecstatic (one who has mystical experiences) is the subject of this series. He uses numerous tools on his quest, from Qabalah ( this spelling used for magick) to the Bible ( Solomon's temple) to the Fourth Way (Gurdjieff's concept of self-remembering). He is both ancient and modern. All things intersect in him. Nirvana, Heaven, Enlightenment, these are only words to him. He knows that the real things cannot be spelled or spoken. These pages map his journey from first episode to last, and he takes us with him the whole way. What one man learns, all men learn." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.