Books written by Richard Kostelanetz

AnOther E.E. Cummings

To read the avant-garde Cummings is to read a writer who consistently broke with established norms, "never to rest and never to have: only to grow." To not read the avant-garde Cummings is to not read Cummings.
Scenarios: Scripts to Perform

Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
The B.B. King Reader: 6 Decades of Commentary

Originally released on the flip - side of B.B.'s 1960 hit “ Partin ' Time , ” “ Good Man Gone Bad ” makes its first appearance on CD here . B.B. , though , clearly remembered it because he featured it on his 1998 album , Blues on the ...
The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-Garde Letters

This anthology collects 51 of Stein's most experimental poems, stories, portraits, and plays.
Artists' SoHo: 49 Episodes of Intimate History

I thought of offering my own SoHo address to any retailer offering the highest price and not requiring that I vacate, but couldn't figure out how and where to sell my virtual proposal. Indeed, SoHo had become such a classy imprimatur ...
Conversing with Cage

John Cage was perhaps the 20th century's most radical classical composer. From his famous "silent" piece (4'33") to his proclamation that "all sound is music," Cage stretched the aesthetic boundaries...
Conversing with Cage

Conversing with Cage
Writings about John Cage

John Cage was one of the most extraordinary and intriguing composers of the twentieth century--or perhaps of any century. His vast corpus of musical compositions, writings, and performances has amazed,...
Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984

This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world, including John Cage and Pierre Boulez; ...
Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984

GG Virgil Thomson is universally recognized as one of the twentieth century's grearest wrirers on music— how it is made, performed, and markered to the public. Working for New York's Herald Tribune from the '40s thtough the papers ...
Kosti's Early Commonplace Book

Kosti's Early Commonplace Book/The East Village 1970 reproduces the aphorisms that Richard Kostelanetz tacked to the wall of his studio between 1967 and 1974, along with his recent commentary on these monumental quotations, all in another ...
Aminima

ANIMIMA represents the latest interwoven collaboration of John M. Bennett and Richard Kostelanetz.
Writings on Glass: Essays, Interviews, Criticism

The chronology of the works and discography have been updated for the paperback edition.
Poetry Matters: A Collection of Essays

In this collection of thirteen essays about writing, reading, editing and publishing poetry, six influential, independent poet-publishers explicate the values and ideas that began with the sixties mimeo revolution and that have continued to ...
The B.B. King Companion: Five Decades of Commentary

B. B. King is a national treasure. For more than four decades, he has been the consummate blues performer. His unique guitar playing, powerful vocals, and repertoire of songs has...
The B B King Companion: Five Decades of Commentary

The B B King Companion: Five Decades of Commentary
More Wordworks

"Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz's work in several fields appear in various editions of A Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers (ed. Peter Parker, Oxford), The Chronology of American Literature (Houghton...
Politics in the African-American Novel: James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison

The novels treated here retain a kind of eye-witness account from the front immediacy that, combined with Kostelanetz's enduring insights, will make Politics in the African-American Novel an important addition to courses in American history ...
Cunts After J. Updike

Extending Richard Kostelanetz's monumental English-Language Writing project with additional Book Art, Cunts explores the richness of the English language exemplified by a wealth of imaginative synonyms for a certain familiar word that ...
Remembering Many I've Met: My Life in Other People

Remembering Many I've Met: My Life in Other People is another contribution to Richard Kostelanetz's continuing exploration of alternative autobiography, here including private thoughts that, in an imaginatively book design, are barely ...