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Introduction
Parallel to his visual work, Öyvind Fahlström devoted
great part of his creative energy to writing. Firstly influenced
by Antonin Artaud and the Surrealists, his poetry suddenly
broke free, in the early 1950s, to embrace the trends of experimentalism
that aimed to fuse music to writing.
Under the influence of Pierre Schaeffer’s theory of musique
concrete, Fahlström wrote what was to be known as the
first manifesto for concrete poetry. That document alone has
earned Fahlström a prominent place in the history of
the avant-garde in the second half of the twentieth century.
A.S. Bessa
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© 2006 Sharon Avery-Fahlström (text and artwork by Öyvind Fahlström)
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