Considerations on the Death and Burial of Tristan Tzara is now available from Black Scat Books!

Isidore Isou, the founder of the artistic movement Letterism, was a great admirer of the Dadaist Tristan Tzara. So, when Tzara died in 1963, Isou disrupted the funeral to give the great provocateur a properly raucous sendoff. Isou’s lively account of the proceedings is both a polemic against traditional funerals and a warm declaration of his affection and admiration for Tzara.

Isou’s text was originally published in 1964. My translation of it was first published in a limited edition by Black Scat Books in 2012. This revised edition is much improved and is now available to all readers interested in Isou and Tzara.