Poetry. Long concerned with poetic invention, the indisputably
avant-garde writer Richard Kostelanetz has recently been
discovering new language forms not with words but within words.
This new collection of his, RECIRCUITS, is one of several efforts
in this direction. From the great linguist Roman Jakobson he takes
this classic appreciation: "Poetry has from the earliest times
engaged in play with suffixes; but only in modern poetry, and
particularly in Xlebnikov, has this device become conscious, and as
it were legitimate." The constraint informing this collection is
that the addition or subtraction of a single letter recircuits the
semantic stream. For this book he presents complementary texts--the
first, copies of the handwritten pages he prepared for Francesco
Conz's Ezra Pound Project (Verona, Italy) depending upon the
addition of suffixes; the second, many of the same sequences
reversed to discover recircuits revealed through subtraction. These
poems cannot be translated, because they exploit possibilities
unique to English.
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