Emmett Williams
Emmett Williams (born with Greenville, in South Carolina, the April 4th 1925, dead the February 14th 2007 with Berlin, in Germany), was a American Poète.
He was born in Greenville, in South Carolina and grows in Virginia. He lived in Europe of 1949 to 1966. Williams studied poetry with John Crowe Ransom in Kenyon College, studied anthropology with the Université of Paris, and worked as assistant with the ethnologist Paul Radin in Suisse.
As artist and poet, Emmett Williams collaborated with Daniel Spoerri in the circle of Darmstadt of Poésie concretes 1957 with 1959. In the Years 1960, Williams was the European coordinator of Fluxus, and one of the founding members of the Poetic Domaine with Paris.
Its plays appeared in Das Neue Forum , Berner Blatter , Ulmer Theater , and other magazines European. Williams translates into English the Topographie Anectdotée of the Chance of Daniel Spoerri, collaborated with Claes Oldenburg in Store Days , and published off An Anthology Concrete Poetry (an Anthology of Poetry Concretes), published by Something Else Close (directed by Dick Higgins, friends of the Fluxus artists)
In 1996, it was decorated for the unit with its work by Hanna-Hösch-Preis.
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