- Concrete poetry, Music, Philosophy and aesthetics, Music, history and criticism
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."
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Contemplative, prestige, cool and spare.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Cage, John.
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press, Marion Boyars, Marion Boyars Publishers
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780819560988
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