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...

Welcome to the 21st Century

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

Critical essays by Leslie Fiedler, High Kenner, Charles Olson, Northrop Frye, and many others.

How are we to understand, define, and critically evaluate the function, origin, and types of art ...

Literary Nonfiction. Cultural Studies. A heavyweight confronting sanctified elephants, the imposs...

How are we to understand, define, and critically evaluate the function, origin, and types of art ...

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

For more than twenty years, Richard Kostelanetz has been a consistent iconoclast and advocate of ...

Cultural Writing. Political Studies. Essays. TOWARD SECESSION: 156 MORE POLITICAL ESSAYS FROM A F...

Kostelanetz slashes and burns his way through the politics of American culture. Crimes of Culture...

As a rich successor to his Crimes of Culture (Autonomedia, 1996), Political Essays (Autonomedia, ...

Having long accepted the common opinion that only two American

Kostelanetz was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the conductor Andre...