ARCHIVE (17 signed post cards, 3 TLS); of material written to poet and editor of the magazine Voyages, William Claire.
The cards and letters concern the publication of material in "Voyages" of other allied topics.
Mimeographed article: "A Census of Young North-American Writers" (16pp)
"Visual Language", Brooklyn, NY: Assembling Press, 1970. One of 2350 copies, inscribed to Bill (Claire), cover some soiled
December 4, 1968, Typed post card
April 1, 1969 typed card, signed
April 11, 1969, typed card, signed
May 2, 1970 Typed post card, signed
May 29, 1970, typed card signed
July 22, 1970, Typed card, signed
January 12, 1971, typed card, signed
February 22, 1971, typed card, signed
April 24, 1971, typed card, signed
May 24, 1971 TLS, 1 page
July 12, 1971, typed card, signed
August 20, 1971, typed card signed
March 12, 1972, Typed card, signed
May 20, 1972, TLS, 1 page
October 12, 1972, typed card signed
December 26, 1972, TLS, 1/2 page
May 20, 1973, Typed card, signed
June 25, 1973, typed card (not signed)
January 4, 1974, typed card, signed
May 2, 1979, typed note, signed
Feb 12, 1980, typed note with holograph comments, signed. Item #54306
Richard Cory Kostelanetz (May 14, 1940, New York City) is an American artist, author and critic. He has a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. in American History from Columbia University under Woodrow Wilson, NYS Regents, and International Fellowships; he also studied at King's College London as a Fulbright Scholar. Grants have come to him from the Guggenheim Foundation (1967), Pulitzer Foundation (1965), DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm (1981–1983), Vogelstein Foundation (1980), Fund for Investigative Journalism (1981), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001), CCLM (1981), ASCAP (1983 annually to the present), American Public Radio Program Fund (1984), and the National Endowment for the Arts with ten individual awards (1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991). He also assumed production residencies at the Electronic Music Studio of Stockholm, Experimental TV Center (Owego, NY), Mishkenot Sha'ananim (Jerusalem), and the MIT Media Lab, among other entities. Books of his radically alternative fiction include In the Beginning (1971) (the alphabet arranged in single and double letter combinations), Short Fictions (1974), More Short Fictions (1980, and Furtherest Fictions (2007)); of his mostly visual poetry, Visual Language (1970), I Articulations (1974), Wordworks (1993), and More Wordworks (2006). Among the anthologies he has edited are On Contemporary Literature (1964, 1969), Beyond Left & Right (1968), John Cage (1970, 1991), Moholy-Nagy (1970), Breakthrough Fictioneers (1973), Scenarios (1980), and The Literature of SoHo (1981).
A political anarchist-libertarian, he authored Political Essays (1999) and Toward Secession: More Political Essays (2008) and has since 1987 been a contributing editor for Liberty Magazine. In 1973 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II.
Price: $600.00