Sad news tonight : Dick Higgins passed away yesterday. He was a major
figure in a complex set of art & poetry crossovers — poet, composer,
painter, translator and art theorist, he was involved early on with
happenings and was a core member of Fluxus — defining what came to be
known by his own term of "intermedia." Of himself he said: "I find I
never feel quite complete unless I'm doing all the arts--visual, musical
and literary. I guess that's why I developed the term 'intermedia,' to
cover my works that fall conceptually between these." As founder of
Something Else Press he published works by Alan Kaprow, Gertrude Stein,
Marshall McLuhan, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Emmett Williams, and Ray
Johnson among others. His forty-seven books include _foew&ombwhnw_
(something else press), _Poems Plain & Fancy_ (Station Hill Press) and
_A Book About Love & War & Death_ (Something Else). He edited and
annotated Giordano Bruno's_ On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas
_(Willis, Locker & Owens), as well as the marvellous anthology _ Pattern
Poetry : Guide to an Unknown Literature_ (SUNY Press).
A small poem from _foew&ombwhnw_ :
v - cry
w h y
c r y
w h y
d i e
in sadness,
Pierre
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