GILLESPIE, Abraham Lincoln
(1895–1950)
GILLESPIE, Abraham Lincoln (11 June 1895–10 September 1950). Commonly regarded as the most eccentric of the literary Americans gathered in Paris in the 1920s, Gillespie produced prose so unique it must be read to be believed; excerpts are not sufficient. He made Visual Poetry; he worked with neologisms in a piece/poem characteristically titled “A Purplexicon of Dissynthegrations (Tdevelop abut Earfluxsatisvie-thru-Heypersieving),” which typically tells almost everything that need be known about…