# Eecchhooeess - Hardcover

by **N. H. Pritchard** (Author)

**An exacting facsimile of Umbra protagonist Norman H. Pritchard's long-rare 1971 collection of visually kinetic poetry**

American poet Norman H. Pritchard's second and final book, _EECCHHOOEESS_ was originally published in 1971 by New York University Press. Pritchard's 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 readings--documented, among few other places, on the album _New Jazz Poets_ (Folkways Records, 1967)--make themselves heard on the page.

_EECCHHOOEESS_ exemplifies Pritchard's formal and conceptual sensibilities, and provides an entryway into the work of a poet whose scant writings have only recently achieved wider recognition. DABA's publication of _EECCHHOOEESS_ is unabridged and closely reproduces the design of the original 1971 volume.

**Norman H. Pritchard** (1939-96) was affiliated with the Umbra group, a predecessor to the Black Arts Movement. He taught writing at the New School for Social Research and published two books: _The Matrix: Poems 1960-1970_ (Doubleday, 1970) and _EECCHHOOEESS_ (New York University Press, 1971). His work was anthologized in publications including _The New Black Poetry_ (1969), _In a Time of Revolution: Poems from Our Third World_ (1969), _Dices or Black Bones: Black Voices of the Seventies_ (1970), Ishmael Reed's _19 Necromancers from Now_ (1970), _Text-Sound Texts_ (1980) and others.

**Number of Pages:** 64

**Dimensions:** 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.8 IN

**Publication Date:** February 23, 2021

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