Andrei Codrescu has NCS (Numerical Consistency Syndrome): born in Transylvania 1946, immigrated to Detroit in 1966, did not die in Venice in 1976, was King of Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 1986, was tenured at Louisiana State University (LSU) in 1986, won the Ovid Prize for poetry in 1996, wrote “The Posthuman Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess” in 2006, moved to Brooklyn in 2016. He wrote 66 books and rode “Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books & Ideas.” for 66 issues. codrescu.com
On March 19, 2020, Andrei Codrescu started a visual/audio Journal of The Plaguein New York City.
Mid-Plague in 2020 the streets of America exploded in anger.
The sirens of ambulances merged with the sirens of cars.
The music of New York in the CoVid Era.
Codrescu grew up under a Soviet-style dictatorship in Romania.
He landed in Detroit in 1966 in the middle of a revolution.
The tanks of the National Guard and the 82nd Airborne fired into the crowds.
Today we are sliding into fascism, civil war, and environmental catastrophe.
