Emmett Williams: A Valentine for Noël, Four Variations on a Scheme (Something Else Press, 1973) Smart Museum 2023Pages: 220 PagesSize: 7cm x

2023Pages: 220 PagesSize: 7cm x 10

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Emmett Williams: A Valentine for Noël, Four Variations on a Scheme (Something Else Press, 1973) Smart Museum 2023Pages: 220 PagesSize: 7cm x20 x 15 cm ISBN: 0871101076 One of 2,000 copies The four poems in this book are each driven by different visual and conceptual engines, the most elaborate of which is spelled out in a rather apologetic letter of explanation as a preface to IBM. In the included Ego Hego Shego, Soldier, and Fte Duchamptre, letter pressed visual puns make use of color, fragmented text, and flip book like movements to produce a dynamic set of visual poems.