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Based largely on coversations between John Cage and Joan Retallack, this book explores the artistry of Cage, including his attention to sound and his unconventional blurring of boundaries - such as those that separate the genre of music from poetry.
“[L]inear chronological autobiographical narrative is bullshit,” Ron Silliman, from “Albany.”
“Goal is not to have a goal,” John Cage.
“For modern poetry, since it must be distinguished from classical poetry and from any type of prose, destroys the spontaneously functional nature of language, and leaves standing only its lexical basis,” Roland Barthes, from Writing Degree Zero.
“Narrativity is short-circuited from the moment the reading process is spatialized,” Jerome McGann
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