Autogeddon
1991
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4.43
Average Rating
160
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ated it visual, philosophy, politics Heathcote Williams collects statistics about pollution, human life and cars, he prints fragments of his poetry and philosophy, and he arranges photographs of traffic. In "Autogeddon" he fits them into an elegant quarto. The cautions, meditations and mournful messages of this book stick to your bones and stay in mind. Dark wit, too. I loved what Heathcote does with the poster of the movie "Z". Imagine a black and white photograph of a man in a suit running, pursued by a Citroen, looking over his s...more
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Author
Heathcote Williams
Author · 6 books
John Henley Jasper Heathcote-Williams was an English poet, actor and award-winning playwright. He was also an intermittent painter, sculptor and long-time conjuror. After his schooldays at Eton, he hacksawed his surname's double-barrel to become Heathcote Williams, a moniker more in keeping perhaps with his new-found persona. His father, also named Heathcote Williams, was a lawyer. He is perhaps best known for the book-length polemical poem Whale Nation, which in 1988 became "the most powerful argument for the newly instigated worldwide ban on whaling." In the early 1970s his agitational graffiti were a feature on the walls of the then low-rent end of London's Notting Hill district. From his early twenties, Williams has enjoyed a minor cult following. His first book, The Speakers (1964), a virtuoso close-focus account of life at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, was greeted with unanimous critical acclaim. In 1974 it was successfully adapted for the stage by the Joint Stock Theatre Company.
