Mini Maxims

Mini Maxims

Poetry. The practice of composing maxims, or aphorisms, has a long tradition, from Ecclesiastes to Erasmus and Pascal, and now Kostelanetz contributes his small share to such collected wisdoms. Sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes dead serious, Kostelanetz's sayings will delight any reader willing to travel with him into a journey of contemporary knowledge. Limited to 150 copies letterpress printed from handset Goudy Modern metal types onto 80 lb. Neenah's recycled Environment Felt text, various colored endsheets, sewn by hand, and bound with a paper cover. Richard Kostelanetz was born in 1940 in New York City and still lives there. He is a writer, artist, critic, and editor of the avant- garde who is productive in many fields. He has degrees from Brown University, Columbia University, and attended King's College, London. He served as visiting professor or guest artist at a variety of institutions and lectured widely. His published works include In the Beginning (1971), The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America (1974), Recyclings: A Literary Autobiography (1974, 1984), A Berlin Lost (1984), and A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (1999), as well as many small press experimental and visual poetry titles. Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz's work appear in Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers and Britannica.com .