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Subtitle: writings '79-'82
By: John Cage.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press; University Press of New England
Published: 1983
Place of publication: [Middletown, Conn.]; Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Cage, John; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Concrete poetry
Description: One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them," he attempts in X to create looser structures in both life and art, to free "my writing from my intentions."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Writing for the fourth time through Finnegans wake; title: "There is not much difference between the two." (Suzuki Daisetz); title: Toyama 1982; title: James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie : an alphabet; title: Another song; title: Writing through the cantos; title: (untitled); title: B. W. 1916-1979; title: Composition in retrospect; title: For her first exhibition with love; title: Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1973-1982; title: Wishful thinking; title: Muoyce (writing for the fifth time through Finnegans wake).