Richard Kostelanetz
Sixth Assembling

Richard Kostelanetz is a long-time supporter of innovative and experimental literature. An expert in verbo-visual work and many other forms of avant garde literature, Kostelanetz's assembling technique, as shown here, was a major method employed by downtown authors to circumvent the structures of traditional editorship. In assembling magazines, every contributor brings a certain number of copies of their work, say 100 copies of a poem, and the magazine is compiled from the various sheets, stapled together, and distributed. Kostelanetz is well-known for his own writing and for his anthologies of contemporary works.