Frank Kuenstler

Frank Kuenstler (* 1928 ; † August 11, 1996 in Manhattan ) was an American writer , artist and filmmaker .

He is considered the center of a small New York poet scene in the mid-1960s who worked in the Eventorium on West 100th Street , with Michael Benedikt , Michael O'Brien , Serge Gavronsky , Barbara A. Holland , Rachel Blau , George Bowering and Russell , among others Edson . Artist is compared to the better known Ray Johnson . He was part of the post- Gertrude Stein 'Language' writing movement of American poets, which included Vito Acconci , Charles Bernstein , John Cage , Clark Coolidge , Lyn Hejinian , Jackson Mac Low , Bob Perelman , Bern Porter and Jerome Rothenberg . He was also featured by Larry Sawyer in his literary journal www.milkmag.org .

Works

As an author

The first poems appeared in the journal The Eventorium Muse in the sixties. He also published the magazine Bread & (New York 1962) - corresponding to the evening readings of the same name that he organized - which , in addition to his own poems, contained works by Adolfus Mekas , Norman Mailer and Harold Rosenberg , among others . An unpublished manuscript from 1973 is entitled The Carlos and the Similes . Between 1964 and 1996, a total of nine collections of poetry were published:

• LENS. Fim Cultures, New York 1964.
• Selected Poems. Eventorium Press, New York 1964.
• Paradise News. Eventorium Press, New York 1966.
• Fugitives. Rounds. 1966.
• 13 1/2 poems. SZ / Press, New York 1984, ISBN 0-930125-01-0 .
• Continued. Night Three Press, New York 1987.
• Miscellany. Night Three Press, New York 1987.
• In Which. Cairn Editions, New York 1994, ISBN 1-886044-04-X .
• The Seafarer, BQE and Other Poems. Cairn Editions, New York 1996, ISBN 1-886044-05-8 .

Individual works can also be found in:

• Mudfish Two (A Forum for Contemporary Art and Poetry). ISBN 0-9618526-0-7 .

As a visual artist

During this time he also began to create wall sculptures (wooden assemblages from found objects).

As a filmmaker and actor

Three films were made at the end of the sixties:

• Color idioms
• Two Plays by Serge Gavronsky
• Our Magazine No. 1.

He also worked on two narrative films by Jonas Mekas :

• Guns of the trees (1961)
• Walden (Diaries, notes and sketches) (1969)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jeanne heuving: An Interview Rachel Blau DuPlessis, with In: Contemporary Literature. Vol. 45, No. 3, 2004, pp. 397-420
2. ^ American Film Institute, The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures , 1997, pp. 259 and 442

Web links

• Frank Kuenstler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Obituary on nytimes.com (English)
• Selection of poem audios on writing.upenn.edu (English)
• Overview of the work with a review of 13 1/2 poems by Charles Bernstein (English)
• The LENS Collection (PDF file; 1 MB)