Richard Kostelanetz
EROTIC MINIMAL FICTIONS
Mutual flowering.
Hallucinations.
Emotional synopsis.
Curiosity.
Remembering everything.
Chemistry.
Salaciousness.
Undressing.
Lubrication.
Tonguing.
Coupling.
Mutual interpenetration.
Subliminal connections.
Home cooking.
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 Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors, and Poets, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Art, and Britannica. com, among other directories. When the publishers listed in the annual Directory of American Poetry Publishers (Dustbooks) have been asked to name five poets they printed recently, he generally ranks between number three and six, with 20 votes. Nonetheless, he still needs two dollars (US) to get on a New York City subway.
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EROTIC MINIMAL FICTIONS
Erotic literature is as likely as poetry to be experimental in presentation.
—Michael Perkins, The Secret Record (1977)
What is being celebrated in erotic fiction is the moment of heightened consciousness that occurs during sex.
—Michael Perkins, The Secret Record (1977)
Mutual flowering.
Hallucinations.
Emotional synopsis.
Curiosity.
Remembering everything.
Chemistry.
Salaciousness.
Undressing.
Lubrication.
Tonguing.
Coupling.
Mutual interpenetration.
Subliminal connections.
Home cooking.
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 Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors, and Poets, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Art, and Britannica. com, among other directories. When the publishers listed in the annual Directory of American Poetry Publishers (Dustbooks) have been asked to name five poets they printed recently, he generally ranks between number three and six, with 20 votes. Nonetheless, he still needs two dollars (US) to get on a New York City subway.
posted by mark young at 10:12 PM
1 Comments:
What a killer last line!
I'm a long-time admirer of Richard Kostelanetz's poems, so glad to see this!
The subway is now two bucks?!!
eileen
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