OR / WE

by Evan D. Williams

This unique artist's book, now in the permanent collection of the Taube Museum of Art, comprises a single spread illustrated with litho crayon frottage stich-bound into paper covers with hand-applied twenty-four-karat gold leaf. Its brevity and shininess are intended to hold the eight-second attention span of today's consumers, while the semantic ambiguities of the text ("OR / WE") invite further contemplation.

1 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

About the author

Evan D. Williams investigates the quandaries of the numinous and carnal self in a range of documental forms.

His writing has appeared in over fifty publications, including Number, Antennae, Africanah, Lychee Rind, The Ovid Gazette, Punt Volat, and The Sweet Tree Review.

Dear Excavator, his first full-length book, was published by April Gloaming in 2021. Not All the Leopards Are Metaphors, his second collection, was launched in 2024. Brackmeadow: A Poem in Dialogue, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2025.

He has also produced several unique image–text books and zines, including Everything Material (2020, Ruskin Library, Oxford), Terminal Proposals (2023, De Kunstenbibliotheek, Ghent), and Hover States (2025, DobraVaga × Zine Vitrine, Ljubljana).

Williams resides in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains with his wife and cats. He is at work on his next poetry manuscript, A Commentary on United States v. One Black Horse.