Explores the roots and fruits of this radical art movement.
Here Emmett Williams turns cartoonist, in the footsteps of Lyonel Feininger, Rube Goldberg, and Ad Reinhardt. His pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered by Ann Noel for this edition, are peopled with often-irre[...]
First published by the legendary Something Else Press in 1967, "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry" was the first American anthology on the international movement of Concrete poetry. The movement itself began in the early 1950s, in Germany--through Eugen Gomringer, who borrowed the term "concrete" from[...]
Written during the Vietnam war, Soldier is perhaps the best-known work by the Concrete poet and editor Emmett Williams (1925-2007). The poem consists of the word "soldier" printed continuously in a column down the right-hand page, with the word "die" inside the word "soldier" gaining one line per pa[...]