I found out about Baroness Elsa through Renee Steinke's novel "Holy Skirts" (which I HIGHLY recommend for anyone interested in Dada or the New York avant-garde literary scene) and have quickly fallen in love with her - the proto-punk performance art of her costumes (shaving her hair off and dying the stubble scarlet, wearing birthday cakes and birdcages as hats, constructing dresses out of bicycle parts and safety pins), her odd "found object" sculptures, and her poetry, which is absolutely explosive. Here's a short example:

APPALLING HEART
City stir——wind on eardrum——
dancewind : herbstained——
flowerstained——silken——rustling——
tripping——swishing——frolicking——
courtesing——careening——brushing——
flowing——lying down——bending——
teasing——kissing : treearms——grass——
limbs——lips.
City stir on eardrum—— .
In night lonely
peers—— :
moon——riding !
pale——with beauty aghast——
too exalted to share !
in space blue——rides she away from mine chest——
illumined strangely——
appalling sister !

Herbstained——flowerstained——
shellscented——seafaring——
foresthunting——junglewise——
desert gazing——
rides heart from chest——
lashing with beauty——
afleet——
across chimney——
tinfoil river——
to meet——
another's dark heart——

Bless mine feet !

She seems to love the play of words, the surprising conjunction of them. Does anyone know if and where I can find more of her work? I know that there is a volume of selected poems out there somewhere, but I can't seem to locate it.