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April 29: The indefatigable Richard Kostelanetz has another book out, this one called SCRAM BLED, that title split between its front and back covers. Available for $10 postpaid from John M. Bennett's still-going Luna Bisonte Prods, 137 Leland Avenue, Columbus OH 43214. Each of the pieces in SCRAM BLED repeats the game the title plays, but usually less straight-forwardly. I was slow to figure out the process, but the clues are there for anyone not brain-dead, and all the combinations work without cheating. They seem to me among Kostelanetz's most clever thing-a-mah-jigs. I don't want to spoil the fun by solving any here, though.
Their nicely-done multi-font design is by Aryeh Cohen-Wade, by the way.
Naturally, I can't leave them without considering them taxonomically. They present a problem: technically, they're poems, since they are lineated. But they do so little for the senses, it's hard to think of them as poems. I finally concluded they are infraverbal specimens of light verse. Which isn't to slight them--they're extremely good for what they are, and what they are is first-rate poetry, albeit almost purely conceptual.
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