Dick Higgins (1938–98) was a visual artist, publisher, poet, composer, and playwright. He founded the highly influential Something Else Press, and wrote more than three dozen books.Editor Bonnie Marranca is editor and publisher of PAJ Publications/PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and the author of four volumes of writings on the arts and several edited collections of plays, essays, and interviews. She is Professor Emerita of Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.

"Working in an international context, with an avoidance of consumption, intent on leaving a legacy but not attached to that in an ego sense, Higgins work continues to offer interest and possibility in the present. Marranca’s carefully gathered selection makes these works available for critical comment and, also, for potential performance."

Dick Higgins (1938–98) was a visual artist, publisher, poet, composer, and playwright. He founded the highly influential Something Else Press, and wrote more than three dozen books.Editor Bonnie Marranca is editor and publisher of PAJ Publications/PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and the author of four volumes of writings on the arts and several edited collections of plays, essays, and interviews. She is Professor Emerita of Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.

"Working in an international context, with an avoidance of consumption, intent on leaving a legacy but not attached to that in an ego sense, Higgins work continues to offer interest and possibility in the present. Marranca’s carefully gathered selection makes these works available for critical comment and, also, for potential performance."