Three Poems: Bassacksenglish, Monopoems, Coming(s) Together [Paperback]

Poetry. Having already established his poetry among the most inventive ever, the distinguished man of avant-garde letters Richard Kostelanetz realizes further radically formal steps in THREE POEMS. Each is a sequence of one-word texts continuously interleaved with the others in an unprecedented way, in sum offering an unprecedented reading experience. The book concludes with Kostelanetz's visual essay Poetry I Shall Not Make. For work of this kind he has earned individual entries in theReaders Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers,Contemporary Poets, andBritannica.com, among other highly selective directories.

I sense the strength of the narrative (and there are many narratives throughout) to be elastic or plastic: how the reader molds it in his/her/my/your mind. —John Robert Colombo