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