Dick Higgins' "A Something Else Reader" (1972/2022)

 

New York City: Primary Information (book, anthology), 1972/2022.
9.25" x 6.25" x 1.125", 352 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-7377979-2-0.

A Something Else Reader an anthology edited by Something Else Press founder Dick Higgins, and assembled by Alice Centamore. This was created in 1972 but not published until Primary Information (New York City) published it in 2022. Designed by Scott Ponik. Managing editor was James Hoff. Copy editor was Allison Dubinsky. 

This includes an indirect Burroughs contribution through Jackson Mac Low, who contributes "A 2-Part Poem for Ginsberg & Burroughs from Burroughs' Letter to Ginsberg", at pages 320-321. 

Contents: 

• Dick Higgins: introduction
• Dick Higgins: selections from Jefferson's Birthday/Postface:
• "A Something Else Manifesto"
• "moving and happening"
• Bengt af Klintberg: selections from The Cursive Scandinavian Salve:
• "Seven Forest Events"
• "Party Event"
• Allan Kaprow: selection from Some Recent Happenings:
• "Raining"
• Al Hansen: selection from A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art: 
• "Car Bibbe"
• Wolf Vostell: selections from Dé-coll/age Happenings:
• "skeleton"
• "the theater is in the street" (parts I and II)
• "Invitation to PC Petite Ceinture"
• "do-it-yourself"
• "if you ask me..."
• "put a tiger in your tank"
• "a happening manifesto"
• "three definitions"
• Nam June Paik: selections from Manifestos:
• "Cybernated Art"
• "Utopian Laser TV Station"
• Allan Kaprow: selection from Untitled Essay and Other Works:
• "Paper"
• Alison Knowles: selections from By Alison Knowles:
• "Shuffle (1961)"
• "Proposition (October, 1962)"
• "Variation #1 on Proposition (October, 1964)"
• "Nivea Cream Piece (November, 1962)"
• "Variation #1 on Nivea Cream Piece"
• Dick Higgins: selection from Jefferson's Birthday/Postface:
• "The Tart or Miss America"
• Robert Filliou: selection from A Filliou Sampler:
• "Yes – an action poem –"
• various: selections from An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, edited by Emmett Williams:
• Augusto de Campos: "terremoto"
• Åke Hodell: from General Bussig
• Ian Hamilton Finlay: "XM poem"
• Eugen Gomringer:
• "mist mountain butterfly"
• "americans and apricots"
• Brion Gysin:
• "I am that I am"
• ["Statement on the cut-up method and permutated poems"]
• Kitasono Katue: "tanchona kukan – part 1"
• Hansjörg Mayer: from fortführungen
• Aram Saroyan: untitled
• Mary Ellen Solt: untitled
• Emmett Williams:
• "like attracts like"
• "do you remember"
• Tomas Schmit: selection from The Four Suits:
• "questionnaire for maruta"
• Philip Corner: selection from The Four Suits:
• "Piano Activities (piece for many pianists)"
• Daniel Spoerri: selections from An Anecdoted Topography of Chance:
• George Brecht and Robert Filliou: selections from Games at the Cedilla, or the Cedilla Takes Off:
• from The Cedilla Notebook
• "Puzzle for a Printer (for Dick Higgins)"
• "The Mystery Game III"
• "Conributions to the Well-Being of the Someone Else Press"
• "Natural Oceanic Projects"
• "One-Minute Scenario"
• Richard Meltzer: selections from The Aesthetics of Rock
• Dieter Roth: selections from a Look into the blue tide, part 2
• Claes Oldenburg: selections from Store Days
• various: selections from Notations, edited by John Cage:
• Albert M. Fine: "Song for George Brecht"
• Ray Johnson: "Upim Labo, with a quote from Ken Friedman"
• Pauline Oliveros: "Pieces of Eight"
• Benjamin Patterson: "Paper Piece"
• Carolee Schneemann: "Snows, Sequence 4-7"
• various: selections from Breakthrough Fictioneers, edited by Richard Kostelanetz:
• Eleanor Antin: "An Episode from 100 Boots: An Epistolary Novel"
• Charles Platt: "Norman vs. America"
• Manfred Mohr: from Computer Graphics
• Ruth Krauss: "Drunk Boat"
• Clark Coolidge: "SEND TRACKS   BENT TAPES"
• Richard Kostelanetz: "Parallel Intervalic Sets"
• various: selections from Fantastic Architecture, edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell:
• Pol Bury: "Pan Am Building, New York"
• Claes Oldenburg: "Wing-Nut Monument for Stockholm"
• Buckminster Fuller: "Tetra City"
• J. J. Herman: "This is my song, Collage"
• Dick Higgins: "Architectural Project #1"
• Alison Knowles: "A house of dust, computer poem"
• Richard Hamilton: "Landscape"
• Wolf Vostell: "Proposal for altering the Cathedral of Aachen"
• Toby MacLennan: selections from 1 Walked Out of 2 and Forgot It
• André Thomkins: Lichtschablone für Dick Higgins
• Bern Porter: selections from I've Left: A Manifesto and a Testament of Science and Art
• Bern Porter: selections from Found Poems
• William Brisbane Dick: selections from Dick's 100 Amusements
• Gertrude Stein: selections from Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein: With Two Shorter Stories
• Charles McIlvaine and Robert K. Macadam: selections from One Thousand American Fungi: How to Select and Cook the Edible; How to Distinguish and Avoid the Poisonous
• George Brecht: Chance-Imagery
• Dick Higgins: selections from A Book About Love & War & Death
• Jackson Mac Low: selections from Stanzas for Iris Lezak:
• "The Marrying Maiden"
• "Birth of a Student Movement"
• "NEW APPROACHES TO CITY PLANNING: THE RETURN OF COMMUNITAS"
• "Stanzas for Iris Lezak"
• "First Asymmetry for Iris"
• "Second Asymmetry for Iris"
• "2rd Asymmetry for Iris"
• "A 2-Part Poem for Ginsberg & Burroughs from Burroughs' Letter to Ginsberg"
• Hugh Fox: An Analytical Checklist of Books from Something Else Press
• Editor's Note