A founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Emmett Williams (1925-2007) made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Among them is the book-length concrete poem Sweethearts, first published by Something Else Press (where Williams was editor in chief) in 1968, and back in print for the first time, still sporting its classic cover by Marcel Duchamp. Sweethearts is an anagrammatic erotic encounter between a he and a she, whose entire vocabulary is derived from the word sweethearts. The letters maintain the same spacing in every word on each page, lending the volume a flipbook dimension that Williams enhances by organizing the text to read backwards, so that the reader can flip the book with her or his left hand (thus the front cover is on the back, and vice versa). Richard Hamilton described Sweethearts as being to concrete poetry as Wuthering Heights is to the English novel... compelling in its emotional scope, readable, a sweetly heartfelt, jokey, crying, laughing, tender expression of love.
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Publisher
Buchhandlung Walther König Gmbh & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag
ISBN-13
9783865608109
eBay Product ID (ePID)
97673133
Product Key Features
Book Title
Emmett Williams: Sweethearts
Author
Emmett Williams
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Number of Pages
226 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
160mm
Item Width
120mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Emmett Williams
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany
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