More Wordworks: Poetry
Richard Kostelanetz P.O. Box 444, Prince St., New York, NY 10012-0008, rkostelanetz@bigfoot.com PROPOSAL for the publication of More Wordworks: Selected Recent Poems A sequel to Wordworks: Poems New & Selected (BOA, 1993), this will continue the position established there of radically inventive poetic structures. The book will open with my much-reprinted manifesto "Poetry I Shall Not Make," freshly redesigned for its appearance here, and then have seven sections: 1) InSerts and Other Visual Poems, which feature poems that use capital letters to find short words within longer words (e.g., DiscOverAble). 2) Formally Rigorous Poems, which features Reroutings, which are incremental poems where words change syntactically upon the addition of another letter (e.g., in, sin, sine, singe) and include my one-word poems. 3) Circular poems in which letters set in a circle incorporate at least two overlapping English words. 4) 1001 Contemporary Ballets, which are short prose poems describing possible physical movements as a radical contribution to the tradition of poetsą plays. 5) Extended Writings, which includes the long prose poem "Continuous Dialogue" and a shorter continuous text of nonrepeated overlapping words, "Stringtwo. . . ." 6) Repartitions, which are mostly squares of four letters by four letters, in which four-letter words, both credible and incredible, are found within a longer words, most of which are English, some of which are Spanish. 7) Poetry-Film Sceanrios, which are frames for continuous animations in which words change through the transformation of a single letter at a time. Though all of this is highly innovative work, it is acknowledged in histories and encyclopedias of contemporary poetry and appears frequently in literary magazines around the world. When the publishers listed in the annual Directory of American Poetry Publishers (Dustbooks) have been asked to name five poets they printed recently, I generally rank around number seven with 17-19 votes. Any publisher wishing to consider the current manuscript should contact the author at the address at the top of this page. Thank you.