Something Else Press
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Something Else Press was founded by Dick Higgins in 1963. It published many important texts and artworks by Higgins, Gertrude Stein, George Brecht, Daniel Spoerri, Bern Porter, Emmett Williams and others. The Something Else Press was an early publisher of Concrete poetry and other works by Fluxus artists throughout the 1960s. During the late 1960s in New York City some of the various artists who worked at the Something Else Press included Editor in Chief Emmett Williams, artist Alison Knowles, poet Larry Friefeld, American/English novelist Mary Flanagan, artist Ronnie Landfield, and publisher/founder Dick Higgins. Originally located in Chelsea in Manhattan, the Something Else Press eventually relocated to West Glover, in Northern Vermont in the 1970s.
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[edit] Complete list of Something Else Press publications, 1960s
- Jefferson's Birthday/Postface - Dick Higgins - 1964
- The Paper Snake - Ray Johnson - 1965
- A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art - Al Hansen - 1965
- The Four Suits - Alison Knowles, Tomas Schmit , Benjamin Patterson, Philip Corner - 1965
- Ample Food for Stupid Thought - Robert Filliou - 1965
- An Anecdoted Topography of Chance - Daniel Spoerri - 1966
- DaDa Almanach - Richard Huelsenbeck - 1966
- The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein - 1966
- de-coll/age happenings - Wolf Vostell - 1966
- Dick's 100 Amusements - William Brisbane Dick - 1967
- Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations - Marshall McLuhan - 1967
- An Anthology of Concrete Poetry - Emmett Williams - 1967
- Sweethearts - Emmett Williams - 1968
- Games at the Cedilla, or the Cedilla - George Brecht, Robert Filliou - 1967
- Store Days - Claes Oldenburg- 1968
- Changes: Notes on Choreography - Merce Cunningham - 1968
- There's a Little Ambiguity Over There Among the Bluebells - Ruth Krauss - 1968
- The Book of Hours and Constellations - Eugen Gomringer - 1968
- 246 Little Clouds - Dieter Roth - 1968
- Geography and Plays - Gertrude Stein - 1968
- Notations - John Cage - 1969
- foew&ombwhnw - Dick Higgins - 1969
[edit] 1970s
- Fantastic Architecture - Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins - 1970
- Lucy Church Amiably - Gertrude Stein - 1969
- The Gutman Letter - Walter Gutman - 1969
- New Musical Resources - Henry Cowell - 1969
- The Aesthetics of Rock - Richard Meltzer - 1970
- The Mythological Travels of a Modern Sir John Mandeville, being an account of the Magic, Meatballs and other Monkey Business Peculiar to the Sojourn of Daniel Spoerri on the Isle of Symi, together with divers speculations thereon - Daniel Spoerri - 1970
- Thomas Onetwo - Ernest M. Robson - 1971
- A Sailor's Caleder - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gordon Huntly - 1971
- I've Left - Bern Porter - 1971
- Found Poems - Bern Porter - 1972
- Stanzas for Iris Leak - Jackson MacLow - 1971
- 1 Walked out of 2 and Forgot It - Toby MacLennan - 1972
- Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein - Gertrude Stein - 1972
- How to Write - Gertrude Stein - 1973
- A Book Concluding with as a Wife has a Cow - Gertrude Stein - 1974
- Ring Piece - Geoffrey Hendricks - 1973
- A Book About Love & War & Death - Dick Higgins - 1972
- Breakthrough Fictioneers - Richard Kostelanetz - 1973
- A Valentine for Noel -Emmett Williams - 1973
- Typewriter Poems -Peter Finch - 1972
- The Making of Americans - play by Leon Katz based on the book by Gertrude Stein - 1973
- One Thousand American Fungi - Charles McIlvaine, Robert K. MacAdam - 1973
- The Ten Week Garden - Cary Scher - 1973
- Cancer in My Left Ball - John Giorno- 1973
- Something Else Yearbook - ed. Jan Herman - 1974
- Brion Gysin Let the Mice In - Brion Gysin, ed. Jan Herman, William S. Burroughs, Ian Sommerville - 1973
- Bio-Music - Manford L. Eaton - 1974
[edit] Other publications
Alongside book publications, Dick Higgins published a series of pamphlets titled "Great Bear Pamphlets". You can browse an entire collection of these on [1].
[edit] Changes
While Higgins always remained the primary owner and publisher, other individuals served as editor, including Emmett Williams and Jan Herman. Herman took the job in 1973 and served until the press folded a year later. Higgins is quoted as saying about Herman:
"too much an editor, and too little a fund-raiser. His idea of doing business was to wrap books and mail them away - for that one has assistants (mailing books IS fun if one can afford the time) - and he spent too little time looking for production money from foundations and wealthy people. So the press went kaput the following year..." -Letter to H.R. December 27, 1976 - Fluxus, The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties - Ruhe - 1979 - 'A' , Leidsekruisstraat 10, Amsterdam.
Herman disputes Higgins' account; see the talk page for details.
[edit] References
Peter Frank wrote an annotated history of the press called Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography in 1983 published by McPherson and Company:documentext.
