Books written by Richard Kostelanetz

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  Curious English

  Extending Richard Kostelanetz's monumental English-Language Writing project with additional Book Art, Curious/Hideous English presents two qualities of words one to a page in a continuous counterpoint.

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  Back&forth&

  These two-word texts occupy both sides of a single sheet or cards.

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  Variations

  Variations consists of a short RK autobiographical note robotically translated into over one hundred languages-in sum, incidentally documenting a universe of modern polylingual typography.

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  Sequences

  The subject of Sequences is English words whose meaning changes significantly when the initial letters is moved to the rear of its successors.

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  Ripples

  Richard Kostelanetz's and John M. Bennett's handwritten visual enhancements of resonant words intermixed in a large-format book.

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  A Polygraphic Novel

  A Polygraphic Novel contains sixteen complimentary erotic stories, each with its own typeface, interwoven one sentence at a time over the course of 120 pages.

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  Points / Meditations

  Meditations/Points contains on facing pages two kinds of single-word aphorisms, the first containing resonant words suggesting process, the second kind suggesting perception, all in the tradition of radically aternative exposition defined ...

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  Contemporary Ballets

  Contemporary Ballets (2017) are Richard Kostelanetz's imaginings of choreographies not likely to be realized, its theme being that these texts have a literary status wholly as texts.

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  Dancewritings

  Dancewritings

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  Flip Book

  Flip Book infuses into a traditional book structure words and only words whose letters and thus words change over successive pages. Though perhaps obvious, this appears to be the first time the format is exploited with words alone.

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  One-Letter Visual Poems

  One-Letter Visual Poems recycles many One-Letter Poems, but now on a page a few times as large, the pair of books exemplifying the theme that Richard Kostelanetz has explored elsewhere, in both his own work and his criticism of others, of ...

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  Diving

  Diving compliments Richard Kostelanetz's Swimming as another wholly typographic appreciation of a favorite physical activity.

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  Zip

  Zip resembles Null in also exploring the ultimate negative, but now with a much smaller typeface on a much larger page, as an example of Richard Kostelanetz's long fomenting interest in the same text in radically different formats.

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  Pure Poetry

  This work has been recognized in histories of American literature since the 1970s, most visibly in the Columbia History of American Literature (1989).

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  Beginnings: A Speech Oratorio

  Beginnings: A Speech Oratorio takes a Kostelanetz text collected before and publishes it as a small paperback book that makes performance more feasible for as many as 26 speakers who need not be professional actors, in sum realizing the ...

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  English, Incredible English Vol T-U

  Interested now in producing only texts significant enough to survive me I wanted to write a long poem devoid of personal expression, though not my discriminatory taste--a really long poem in a great American tradition, that would ...

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  English, Incredible English Vol V-Z

  Interested now in producing only texts significant enough to survive me I wanted to write a long poem devoid of personal expression, though not my discriminatory taste--a really long poem in a great American tradition, that would ...

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  English, Incredible English Addendum I/IV

  Interested now in producing only texts significant enough to survive me I wanted to write a long poem devoid of personal expression, though not my discriminatory taste--a really long poem in a great American tradition, that would ...

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  English, Incredible English Addendum III/IV

  Interested now in producing only texts significant enough to survive me I wanted to write a long poem devoid of personal expression, though not my discriminatory taste--a really long poem in a great American tradition, that would ...

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  Phobias Phobias: Fears

  Phobias Phobias extends Richard Kostelanetz's exploration of English-centered writing with a rich collection of many marvelous English words appropriating a common suffix.