Richard Kostelanetz | RECYCLINGS VOLUME ONE 1959-67 A Literary Autobiography

 

Richard Kostelanetz

RECYCLINGS VOLUME ONE 1959-67 A Literary Autobiography

Brooklyn, USA: Assembling Press, 1974

64 pp., 21 x 13.5 cm., staple-bound

Edition of 1526

"Quoted in the preface to Recyclings: A Literary Autobiography: Volume One 1959-67 are passages from Roland Barthes and John Cage that celebrate the vast encyclopedic significations of the single word and call for the demilitarization of syntax, respectively. This poetic thesis statement from Richard Kostelanetz foregrounds a collection of truly avant-garde poetry from the author’s early career. Kostelanetz abandons the formality of punctuation, the “militarization” of syntax, and structure altogether for a poetic formalism that, like the Abstract-Expressionists, triumphs the material: the word.”

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