PO/EMS resemble earlier texts of mine in dissecting familiar words but are, I think, different in wit and in allowing easily for pseudo-words, which is to say they have both signature and significance.
Dedicated to the memory of Jackson Mac Low, a great American experimental/anarchist poet

Editors are invited to select as many (or few) as they wish, distributing them, if an editor prefers, over several pages or even several issues.

a/ban/don
a/bout
a/bra/cad/a/bra
a/bra/ham
a/can/thus
a/cross
a/dam/ant
ad/opt
ad/renal/in
ad/rift
a/go
a/greed
a/ground
air/lines
am/ass
am/a/tory
am/bush
am/our
am/per/sand
an/gel
a/not/her
ant/hem
anti/no/my
anti/thesis
an/us
art/if/ice
as/cent
a/side
ash/ore
as/ides
as/i/nine
a/scent
as/tray
a/trophy
at/tacks
at/tempt
at/tend/ants
at/tic
at/traction
anti/phony
a/wait
a/we/so/me.
ba/by
band/in/age
bar/rack
be/cause
be/fore
be/hind
be/have
bi/cycle
big/a/mist
big/gest
bouy/ant
brig/and
buff/aloes
but/ton
by/line
cab/in
cab/i/net
can/o/pies
car/a/van car/bide
car/pen/try
car/pet
car/to/on
cast/I/gate
cat/a/log
cat/a/strophe
caul/if/lower
cha/sing
child/hood
chum/my
clam/or
clap/ping
classic/ally
cob/web
comb/at
comfort/able
con/do
con/sole
con/test
contra/diction
con/vocation
coo/per/ate
cor/rob/or/ate
counter/at/tack
coven/ants
cover/age
cove/red
cot/ton
crust/ace/an
cry/stall/i/zing
cur/at/or
curt/ail
dead/line
deco/rations
deco/rum
deli/very
deter/mine
disc/over/able
disc/red/it
diver/gent
do/main
do/or
dorm/ant
dub/bed
dung/eon
el/even
end/ear
era/sure
esteem/able
ex/it
ex/press
extra/vagrant
fad/dish
fan/fare
fat/ally
fat/her
favor/able
feat/hers
fig/u/ration
fond/ant
for/gave
for/got/en
form/at
for/tunes
frag/rant
gall/ant
gall/on
gig/antic
goats/kin
gram/mar
ha/bit/ant
ham/mock
hand/i/craft
hand/some
he/art
heat/hen
help/less
hem/lock
her/it/age
her/on
hero/in
her/ring
hi/at/us
his/panic
hi/story
hid/den
hippo/campus
ho/me
ho/nor
honor/able
host/ages
hund/red
idea/list
id/entities
imp/air
imp/as/to
in/ability
in/an/i/mate
in/cub/at/or
in/deed
in/do/lent
in/fancy
in/fan/tile
in/fern/ally
infer/red
in/got
in/her/it
in/jury
in/just/ice
in/mate
in/no/cent
inspect/or
in/sure
in/stall
in/tense
in/tent
intern/ally
in/vest/i/gate
in/vigor/ate
is/land
its/elf
it/ching
jew/el
jock/eyed
kin/dred
kit/ten
lab/oratory
lea/den
leg/ends
less/or
lever/age
lieu/ten/ants
liquid/ate
loco/motives
loo/king
lull/a/by
ma/chin/ate
medal/lions
ma/gist/rate
ma/ha/gony
ma/in
ma/king
ma/ladies
mal/aria
ma/lice
man/if/old
mar/gin
ma/son
ma/scar/a
ma/scot
ma/son
mass/acre
ma/stiff
ma/tad/or
ma/tins
may/hem
may/or
me/ager
mead/owl/ark
me/ant
me/at
men/ace
mete/or
miser/able
miss/ile
mocking/birds
mode/rate
mom/my
muff/in
mum/my
mush/room
musk/rat
new/sprint
no/mad
norm/ally
no/tary
not/at/able
no/thing
nub/ile
on/i/on
onto/logical
op/era
or/bit
or/chard
or/i/gin
out/rage
pa/id
pal/ace
pal/it/able
pall/or
pal/try
pan/ache
pane/list
pan/the/on
par/able
par/ad/ox
par/amount
par/agon
pa/rent
part/ici/pate
par/king
par/lance
par/rot
part/he/no/genesis
part/it/as
past/oral
pat/riot
pen/drag/on
pen/tag/on
pen/umbra
percent/age
per/for/ate
perm/it
pi/cad/or
pins/tripe
pi/ran/ha
pi/rate
plank/ton
plum/age
po/lice
poll/in/ate
poly/phony
posit/ions
post/age
pot/able
pot/a/toes
potent/ate
power/fully
predict/ability
prep/are
pre/tens/on
prim/rose
profess/or
pro/fit/able
pro/gram
pre/late
pro/life/ration
prose/cute
pro/test
psycho/logically
quad/rant
ramp/aging
rat/her
read/able
rear/range
red/dish
rein/car/nation
remark/able
rendez/vous
re/sin
re/so/lute
rig/or
rock/a/way
rose/ate
rot/at/or
rot/or
rug/by
rum/in/ate
rum/or
sac/red
sail/or
sat/ire
sat/is/faction
schema/tic
seas/hells
sect/or
see/thing
sex/ton
she/a/thing
shit/tier
sin/king
skeptic/ally
sod/den
so/lace
so/lid
so/licit/or
so/lid/ify
so/me
so/mew/hat
son/at/a
so/on
so/ur
sou/venir
spat/i/ally
special/ties
squal/or
stale/mates
sub/lime
sub/scribe
sub/stance
sub/urban
suit/able
sum/mary
surf/aces
surp/rises
tan/go
tar/get
tax/able
tea/ring
tee/pee
tee/thing
tee/total
temp/oral
ten/or
term/in/us
the/me
the/rein
thin/king
thou/sand
tit/he
to/day
to/ma/toes
to/me
torn/a/do
to/ward
tract/at/us
trait/or
tri/age
under/stand
up/holster
vale/diction
vamp/ire
van/guard
versa/tile
visit/or
wag/on
war/den
warm/onge/ring
weal/thy
we/an
wee/ping
we/stern
wit/her
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Individual entries on RICHARD KOSTELANETZ appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Webster’s Dictionary of American Authors, The HarperCollins Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, among other distinguished directories. Living in New York, where he was born, he still needs two bucks to take a subway.