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Williams, Emmett

LC control no.n 50015746
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LC classificationPS3573.I449
Personal name headingWilliams, Emmett
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1925-04-04
Death date2007-02-14
Place of birthGreenville (S.C.)
Place of deathBerlin (Germany)
Field of activityPoetry Experimental poetry Sound poetry
Profession or occupationPoets Artists Journalists
Found inSpoerri, D. An anecdoted topography of chance, 1966.
New York times WWW site, Mar. 1, 2007 (Emmett Williams; b. in Greenville, N.C. [sic.] ; d. Feb. 14, Berlin, aged 81; American poet whose transposition of words into visual art and performances made him one of the founding artists of Fluxus, a performance-oriented avant-garde art movement of the 1960s)
Schemes & variations, c1981: t.p. (Emmett Williams) p. 251 (b. Apr. 4, 1925 in Greenville, South Carolina)
Biography Resource Center WWW site, Sept. 24, 2009 Contemporary Authors Online, 2007 (Emmett Williams, 1925-2007 ; b. April 4, 1925 in Greenville, South Carolina ; d. February 14, 2007 in Berlin, Germany)
Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015 (journalist and poet; b. 1925)