Emmett Williams
Books




1958 konkretionen, published by Daniel Spoerri as Number 3 of the review “material”, Darmstadt. With commentaries on the poems by Daniel Spoerri and Claus Bremer.

1960 Ja, Es War Noch Da, Nota, Munich. German translation by Renate Kirchhoff. Published in English as An Opera by Fluxus, Wiesbaden 1964. Published in Czech (translated by Vladimir Burda) as Opera, Sesìty, Prague 1967.

1961 Cities of Germany, a Stars & Stripes Publication, Darmstadt.

1963 poésie et cetera américaine (editor), Biennale des jeunes artistes, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
Cities of Europe, a Stars & Stripes Publication, Darmstadt.

1965 13 Variations on 6 Words of Gertrude Stein, Edition Mat-Mot, Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne

1966 rotapoems, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart / London
An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri, translated and further anecdoted by Emmett Williams, The Something Else Press, N.Y.

1967 sweethearts, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart / London, and The Something Else Press, New York
An Anthology of Concrete Poetry (editor), Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, and The Something Else Press, New York
Claes Oldenburg's Store Days, selected by Claes Oldenburg and Emmett Williams, The Something Else Press, New York
The Last French-Fried Potato and other poems, A Great Bear Pamphlet, The Something Else Press, New York

1968 The Book of Thorn & Eth, bound back to back with Dieter Rot's Noch Mehr Scheisse. Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart / London
246 Little Clouds by Diter Rot, edited and with an introduction by Emmett Williams. Illustrated. Something Else Press, New York. “Corrected version” published by Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart / London 1976.
Anekdoten zu einer Topographie des Zufalls enhaltend die mit Hilfe von Daniel Spoerris gutem Freunde Robert Filliou aufgezeichnete französiche Originalversion und das Anekdotenallerlei seines guten Freundes Emmett Williams aus der amerikanischen Version, alles übersetzt und mit weiteren Anekdoten angereichert von seinem ebenso guten Freunde Diter Rot und verlegt von Luchterhand, Neuwied und Berlin

1969 The Boy and the Bird, first edition, with illustrations by Tom Wasmuth, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, and Wittenborn, New York

1973 About Spoerri Landscapes, Green Butter and Other Matters, text-booklet accompanying a suite of lithographs, Six Variations Upon a Spoerri Landscape, printed at the Lithography Workshop, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
A Valentine for Noël, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart, and The Something Else Press, New York
Language Happenings in “Open Poetry: Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems”. Edited by Ronald Gross and George Quasha, with Emmett Williams, John Robert Columbo and Walter Lowenfelds, Simon & Schuster, New York

1974 Selected Shorter Poems 1950-1970, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart and London; Eaton House Publishers Ltd.; and New Directions Publishing Company, New York

1975 THE VOY AGE, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart and London

1978 Shiga-Kit, edited and published by Koichi Watanabe in Imadate-cho (Fukui): cassettes, films, photographs and other documentation of “A Seminar on Humour With Ay-O and Emmett Williams at Shiga Kogen”, in magemono wooden box

1979 The Boy and the Bird, second edition, with 90 illustrations by the author, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart and London, and Eaton House Ltd.

1980 Holdup (with Keith Godard), Works Editions, New York

1981 Schemes & Variations, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart and London; Gemeente Museum, The Hague; and the Nationalgalerie, Berlin

1982 A Little Night Book (with Keith Godard), Works Editions, New York

1983 Faustzeichnungen, with 141 illustrations by the author, Rainer Verlag, Berlin
Faustzeichnungen, paperback reprint without illustrations, Rainer Verlag, Berlin
The Book of Thorn & Eth, photo-mechanical reprint in reduced format of the 1968 edition, Rainer Verlag, Berlin

1984 Chicken Feet, Duck Limbs and Dada Handshakes, illustrated by the author, Western Front Editions, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

1985 FIESTA! Petersen Galerie, Berlin. Thirty poems, 4 reproductions, bibliograhy.
schutzengel/l'ange gardien/guardian angel/angelo custode, Edition Hundertmark, Köln

1986 Selbstbildnis ohne Titel, Marlene Frei, Artists Books, Galerie & Edition, Zürich. Box with cassette, texts, illustrations. The Boy and The Bird and musica read by the author; Cellar Song for Five Voices performed by Joan La Barbara, Jolyon Brettingham Smith, Toni Stooss, Eberhard Blum, Roland Pfrengle.
Emmett Williams: Language Happenings, edited by Ann Noël. Texts and photographs of performances at the Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg.

1988 Deutsche Gedichte, illustrated with 63 “light sculptures” by the author, Rainer Verlag, Berlin

1989 La dernière pomme frite et autres poèmes des fifties et sixties, Centre de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva

1991 sound POESIE sonore, Manuskripte zu “musica” von Emmett Williams und “Vaduz” von Bernard Heidsieck; Textkörper und Körpertext von Michael Glasmeier (deutsch / englisch); CD der Lautdichtungen; NAU Verlag, Berlin
Trenta Fluxaventi, with an introduction by Sarenco, Laser Edition, Illasi (Verona)
My Life in Flux – and Vice Versa, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart and London
My Life in Flux – and Vice Versa, limited edition with two original drawings by the author, Wiens Laden & Verlag, Berlin
Genesis: A Light Poem, translated into Polish by Piotr Bikont and Andrzej Chetko. Produced by Andrzej Chetko, Bozena Kalinowska and Pawel Tryzno (Correspondance des Arts III), for the International Artists' Museum in Lodz, Poland

1992 13 Variations, Nineteen recently discovered leporellos from the book-object published in 1965 by Edition Mat-Mot and Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne (see 1965 entry in this section), repackaged and distributed by Wiens Laden & Verlag, Berlin.
My Life in Flux – and Vice Versa, Thames and Hudson, London, and Thames and Hudson, New York

1993 Aleph, Alpha, and Alfalfa, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin

1995 An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri done with the help of his very dear friend Robert Filliou and translated from the French and further anecdoted by their very dear friend Emmett Williams, enriched with still further anecdotations by their very dear friend Dieter Roth (translated out of the German for the first time by Malcolm Green), with 100 reflective illustrations by Topor. Atlas Press, London

1996 MR. FLUXUS: Ein Gemeinschaftsporträt von George Maciunas (1931-1978), Aus persöhnlichen Erinnerungen gesammelt von Emmett Williams und Ay-O und montiert von Emmett Williams und Ann Noël. Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden.

1997 MR. FLUXUS: A Collective Portrait of George Maciunas (1931-1978), out of personal reminiscences collected by Emmett Williams and Ay-O and edited by Emmett Williams and Ann Noël. Thames and Hudson in London and New York.

1998 Anekdoten zu einer Topographie des Zufalls von Daniel Spoerri enthaltend die mit Hilfe von Spoerris gutem Freunde Robert Filliou aufgezeichnete französische Originalversion und das Anekdotenallerlei seines guten Freundes Emmett Williams aus der amerikanischen Version, alles übersetzt und mit weiteren Anekdoten angereichert von seinem ebenso guten Freunde Dieter Roth, versehen mit der Zeichnungen seines guten Freundes Roland Topor, vermehrt um weitere Materialien und Anmerkung anläßlich der englischen und der deutschen Neuausgabe, und jetzt verlegt bei Edition Nautilus, Verlag Lutz Schulenburg, Hamburg..