An exacting facsimile of Umbra protagonist Norman H Pritchards longrare 1971 collection of visually kinetic poetryAmerican poet Norman H Pritchards second and final book EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University Press Pritchards writing is visually and typographically unconventional His methodical arrangements of letters and words disrupt optical flows and lexical cohesion modulating the speeds of reading and looking by splitting spacing and splicing linguistic objects His manipulation of text and codex resembles that of concrete poetry and conceptual writing traditions from which literary history has mostly excluded him Pritchard also worked with sound and his dynamic readingsdocumented among few other places on the album New Jazz Poets Folkways Records 1967make themselves heard on the pageEECCHHOOEESS exemplifies Pritchards formal and conceptual sensibilities and provides an entryway into the work of a poet whose scant writings have only recently achieved wider recognition DABAs publication of EECCHHOOEESS is unabridged and closely reproduces the design of the original 1971 volumeNorman H Pritchard 193996 was affiliated with the Umbra group a...
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