WILLIAMS, Emmett

Williams was perhaps the only American writer of his generation to become intimately involved, in the 1950s, with the European intermedia avant-garde. By the 1960s, he was an initiator of Fluxus. As an American who has found more acceptance for his work abroad, Williams has produced straight poetry, Visual Poetry, Visual Fiction, prints, Artist’s Books, paintings, Text-Sound, and performance, working with a variety of radical ideas that he tends to use sparingly. As a poet, he has favored such severe...