apocrypyphaltext Vol. 2, Nos. 2 & 3
Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Webster’s Dictionary of American Authors, The HarperCollins Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, among other distinguished directories. Living in New York, where he was born, he still needs two bucks to take a subway.
from PO/EMS by richard kostelanetz
[Dedicated to the memory of Jackson Mac Low,
a great
American experimental/anarchist poet]
id/entities
warp/lane
do/zen
he/arse
per/jury
leg/it/i/mate
yum/my
hand/i/craft
verb/i/age
ear/then
who/ring
her/pies
night/in/gale
zoo/logical
fur/row
under/stand
by/line
gig/antic
personal/i/ties
jock/eyed
descend/ants
or/chard
just/ify
sac/red
plea/sure
a/bra/cad/a/bra
lucid/i/ties
vale/diction
new/sprint
know/ledge
scholars/hips
mead/owl/ark
term/in/us
cruel/ties