Charles Upton

:This article is about the American poet and author. See Charles W. Upton for the American economist and Charles H. Upton for the Virginia congressman.

Charles Upton (b. 13 December 1948) is an American poet, Sufi, and author on metaphysical topics. Born in San Francisco, California, he grew up in Marin County. He met Lew Welch while attending Catholic school, and Welch helped Upton get his first two books published. Despite his chronological age, those volumes established him as a member of the Beat generation of poets. Subsequently, Upton was involved in the peace movement via the Sanctuary movement and with the New Age movement via Gates of Horn, a dream networking group. In the eighties he was initiated into the Nimatullahi Order (a Sufi order) and his publications since have addressed Sufism and Traditionalism. He is married to Jennifer Doane Upton, a fellow poet and Orthodox Traditionalist, and lives in San Raphael, California.

Bibliography
* Panic Grass (poems, City Lights Books, 1968)
* Time Raid (poems, Four Seasons Foundation, 1968)
* Doorkeeper of the Heart: Versions of Rabi'a]] (poems, Threshold Books, 1988; reprinted by Pir Press, 2004)
* Hammering Hot Iron: A Spiritual Critique of Bly's Iron John]] (Quest Books, 1993; reprinted by Sophia Perennis, 2005)
* The Wars of Love (poems, Corona Mundi(?), c. 2000(?))
* The System of Antichrist: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age (Sophia Perennis, 2001)
* Legends of the End: Prophecies of the End Times, Apocalypse, Antichrist and Messiah from Eight Religious Traditions (Sophia Perennis, 2005)
* Cracks in the Great Wall: UFOs and Traditional Metaphysics (Sophia Perennis, 2005)
* The Virtues of the Prophet: A Young Muslims's Guide to the Greater Jihad, The War Against the Passions (Sophia Perennis, 2006)
* Who Is the Earth? How to See God in the Natural World (Sophia Perennis, forthcoming c. 2007)

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