X (Cage book)

For the similarly titled 2015 mystery novel by Sue Grafton, see "X" (novel).
X
Author John Cage
Published 1983
Pages 187 pp.
ISBN 0819550906

X: Writings ’79–’82 is a book by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1983. The book includes mesostics on the names of various people. In the forward to X, Cage writes that the volume's texts represent an attempt "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them."[1] The book contains the following works:

See also

References

  1. Nicholls, David (ed.) (2002). The Cambridge Companion to John Cage. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780521789684.


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