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Emmett Williams

Concrete poet, painter and performer born in Greenville, SC in 1985. He relocated to Germany in the 1950s, he worked closely with Claus Bremer and Daniel Spoerri. In 1962 he meet the Fluxus artist and remained one of the number until he died. Throughout his life, he published but a small number of books, and is generally better known for his Anthology of Concrete Poetry. He died in Berlin on February 14, 2007.

Concrete poet, painter and performer born in Greenville, SC in 1985. He relocated to Germany in the 1950s, he worked closely with Claus Bremer and Daniel Spoerri. In 1962 he meet the Fluxus artist and remained one of the number until he died. Throughout his life, he published but a small number of books, and is generally better known for his Anthology of Concrete Poetry. He died in Berlin on February 14, 2007.

An Anthology
Essential and visually stunning 1963 anthology edited by Young and Maciunas featuring most of the artist who would be take part in Fluxus. Very rare second edition published in 1970 of this important book.
Disconnected (The Dial-A-Poem Poets)
** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available **  Volume two of the series, again a double-LP, with many of the same participants as the first volume plus the likes of Greg Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Paul Blackburn, John Ashbery, and Charles Amirkhanian. "As album covers go,this must be one of the worst ever?...or one of the best ever? Maybe even the Best ever? A disco shirt clad John Giorno, knealing on a beach in the surf as if bathing in…
The Dial-A-Poem Poets
** Original copies of this rarity. Few copies available ** The first of several releases documenting John Giorno’s dial-a-poem project. The album was released at the height of protest against the Vietnam war and of confrontation between the US establishment and radical domestic organisations such as the Yippies and the Black Panthers. Running along the bottom of the front cover is the message: “At this point, with the war and the repression and everything, we thought this was a good way for the …
The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems (Book)
A short but potent collection of poems by Emmett Williams, a central player in Fluxus and the Concrete poetry movement and one of the editors of the Great Bear series. The titular work—subtitled “the ultimate poem”and improvised around the eating of french fries—was originally performed with Robert Filliou in 1964. The six poems herein are characterized on the whole by compulsive flows of language, with short, piston-like lines carrying out obsessive serial modulations to create a perpetually un…
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