1980's Publications

Dick Higgins, Of Celebration of Morning, Printed Editions, 1980

If foew&ombwhnw is a sort of summing up of whatever I had achieved  up to 1969, then of celebration of morning (1980), my most complex single work to date, sums up my experience of the 1970s. On the one hand it is a story: the homoerotic (if not necessarily homosexual) celebration by an older man (not necessarily myself) of a youn

Dick Higgins, Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia, Southern Illinois University Press, 1983

Written for the lay reader as well as for academic literary theorists, this book bridges the gulf between the artistic avant-garde in music, visual arts, and  experimental literature and the general pub­lic. Higgins delves into multiple areas, but here is an example of one kind of poem he work

Dick Higgins, Intermedia, Akademia Ruchu, Warsaw, 1985

A collection of previously written essays translated to Polish, edited and with an introduction by Peter Rypso

Dick Higgins, Poems Plain and Fancy, Barrytown Ltd., 1986

Poems Plain and Fancy is a reissue of a collection of poems, mostly from the 1970s, of visual poems, pattern poems, performance pieces, and verbo-cerebro games and exercises, from the legendary avant-garde poet, musician, visual artist and Fluxus provocateur. (from book jacket)

Dick Higgins, Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature, State University of New York Press, 1987

Pattern poetry--poetry from before 1900 that fuses literature and visual art--has existed since the times of ancient Crete and Egypt. Less well known than modern visual poetry, pattern poetry has been produced in most European and American literatures, and, as close analogues, in many oriental lit

Dick Higgins, Fourteen Telephone Translations, 1987

Published by WitryArtystów Editions, Klodzko in an edition of 220.