New Author Announcement from XYZX Editions July 2024

Hum.ai Kwon Do 2003-2023…

Is a poet-artist whose written and painted works are now affiliated with the publishing house

XYZX editions at xyzxeditions.com.

Humai Kwon Do, artist, lived in his backyard as Wm, Blake suggested … in the United States during life. He made his living as an artist despite selling his painted works for little … mostly left behind unsigned: …many thought them to be forgeries. He said he had adapted his given name of Humai Kwon Do while learning painting at a martial arts studio… “a dojo for people richer than he.”

When asked of his name …he said, “it means an unknown way of the hand as it turns the toilet brush” He often said it was a job he did his entire life... for all of it and the betterment of others

He said his way was original to him and had existed before Daoism …and it may see a hay day after his death… by confusion fostered by those who prefer Zen.

I heard him tell the following story while we stood in line at a grocery store with others ahead of us; it reminded me of the famous Confucius poem " On the Way to the River " there were five not including him: there were mixed ages , sexes and cultures … chatting; telling stories in turn. Finally his turn came and he told us the following:

“Recently I won the lottery for a free house … I was told I’d get back in cash whatever I had put in it … whatever improvements I felt like offering I’d get back. I wanted it right away because the mortgage was less than I had been paying by quite alot.

it was small and beautiful … a perfect place. Already built. When I arrived ready to move I was told I could not… that I did not have enough money for the future. I could not afford it in old age.”

Everbody started laughing including Hum.ai …

all had gotten the joke, except me.

In time he told me that his name “Humai” like him existed within him before he did and would be taken with him in death fully taken up…not one second more or less.”

Peter Brabbee: Publisher

The Editors… at XYZX Editions