PrefaceFrom the beginning of my work in visual poetry fifty years ago, I wanted to create from wo...

The critical measure for visual poetry is, simply, the visual enhancement of language. With his l...

Having already established his poetry among the most inventive ever, the distinguished man of ava...

As Richard Kostelanetz says in his preface, 'When I first heard the epithet afterimage as an hono...

Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist,...

The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress is a modernist novel by Gertrude ...

In 1925 there appeared two classic representational fictions about urban life, one in America and...

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The enormously prolific American anarchist critic Richard Kostelanetz collects his extensive writ...

Says the author: 'I have been writing literary essays for nearly fifty years now. Since most of t...