KOSTELANETZ, Richard

The taken name of a collective composed of twelve industrious elves, Kostelanetz has produced countless books of poetry, fiction, experimental prose, criticism, cultural history, and book-art, in addition to audiotapes, videotapes, Holograms, and films. By his own admission less a Polyartist than a writer influenced by the ideal of polyartistry, he thinks of all his creative work, in every medium, as essentially writing. Wordsand was the title of a traveling retrospective exhibition of his art (1978–81);...