Postmodern Genres
Watchman, Spy, and Dead Man: Johns, O’Hara, Cage
Modernism / Modernity, 8, no. 2 (2001): 197-223.
How does the flag sit with us, we who don’t give a hoot for Betsy Ross, who never think of tea as a cause for parties?
–John Cage, “Jasper Johns: Stories and Ideas”[1]
In a sketchbook for 1964, Jasper Johns began to make notes for his paintings Watchman […]
Mapping the New (Interview with Rain Taxi)
Mapping the New:
An Interview with Marjorie Perloff
Rain Taxi: Review of Books, 6, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 46-48.
Question
Having just read POETRY ON & OFF THE PAGE, one of its more invigorating features is its non-literariness. It’s the least academic and professorial work of literary criticism I can remember reading in a long while. I’m assuming it is by conscious design – since it is […]
John Cage’s Dublin Lyn Hejinian’s Leningrad
Poetic Cities as Cyberspaces
for Festschrift for OB Hardison, Delaware University Press
In Chapter 5 of Ulysses, Leopold Bloom sets out from home to begin his circuitous voyage through Dublin. We read:
By lorries along Sir John Rogerson’s Quay Mr. Bloom walked soberly, past Windmill lane, Leask’s the linseed crusher’s, the postal telegraph
office. Could have given that address too. And past the sailors’ home […]
John Cage’s Living Theatre
published in Martin Puchner and Alan Ackerman (eds.), Against Theatre: Creative Destruction on the Modernist Stage (New York: Palgrave, 2006), 133-48.
Where do we go from here? Towards theatre. That art more than music resembles nature. We have eyes as well as ears, and it is our business while we are alive to use them.
–John Cage, “Experimental Music” (1957)[1]
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The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage’s “What You Say”
published in Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, with accompanying CD, ed. Adalaide Morris, Chapel Hill and London: Univ. of North Carolina Press (1997), pp. 129-48.
As early as 1939, when he was in residence at the Cornish School of Music in Seattle, John Cage investigated the application of electrical […]