{"product_id":"great-bear-pamphlet-10-the-twin-plays-port-au-prince-adams-county-illinois","title":"Great Bear Pamphlet #10. The Twin Plays: Port-au-Prince \u0026 Adams County Illinois","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacsimile edition. Originally published in 1966 by Something Else Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pair of structurally identical plays, each composed by means of chance operations around the time of the editing and publication of \u003cem\u003eAn Anthology of Chance Operations\u003c\/em\u003e by Mac Low with La Monte Young. Each play is made up of five partially improvised conversations in which the dialogue is derived from a highly restricted lexicon: the first uses words made from the letters that spell out the word “Port-au-Prince” to construct nonsensical “pseudo-sentences,” while the second play consists entirely of folk idioms from the titular rural region. \u003cem\u003eThe Twin Plays\u003c\/em\u003e was Mac Low’s first book, originally self-published in 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Something Else Press between 1965 and 1967, the Great Bear Pamphlet series was envisioned by founding editor Dick Higgins as a “poor man’s keys to the new art,” or a means of exposing the most vital work of the time to a mass-market audience, and vice versa. The series made uncompromisingly radical work maximally accessible, with slim, chapbook-like publications of a mostly uniform, pared down design. Taken together, the pamphlets constitute a firsthand survey of the sixties avant-garde (Higgins, Barbara Moore, and Emmett Williams all had a hand in the editorial process) that is both sweeping and utterly unique, transmitting a still-vibrant signal of expanded possibility in art, music, and poetry. Presented here in a facsimile edition, the Great Bears epitomize the utopian vision of Higgins and Something Else. [publisher’s note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Primary Information","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357002244436,"sku":"A8B-24591","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/great-bear-pamphlet-10-the-twin-plays-port-au-prince-adams-county-illinois","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}