GANGEMI, Kenneth
(*1937)
GANGEMI, Kenneth (23 November 1937). An early Minimalist writer, Gangemi published a “novel” called Olt (1969) that was only sixty pages long. It was written not as a sequence of paragraphs but as a collection of highly resonant sentences, all about a man with minimal emotional affect. His next book, Lydia (1970), has even more severe fictions, some of them merely listings of elements in a narrative; some poems consist of only a single word. He has also published prose poems, a novel in the…