Kurt Schwitters – PPPPPP

Exact Change, 2002 paperback edition. Light cornerwear to wraps & pages.

The most comprehensive anthology of Dada polymath Kurt Schwitters’s writings and sound poetry transcriptions. “Kurt Schwitters’ stated goal was to “erase the boundaries between the arts.” This collection, culled from the five-volume German edition of Schwitters’ writings, introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitters’ words. Included is the complete text for the “Ursonate,” Schwitters’ legendary and lengthy epic of sound poetry, which, as poets, editors and translators Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris comment, “is to sound poetry what Joyce’s Ulysses is to the twentieth-century novel.” Absolutely essential reading