Empty Words
Writings ’73–’78
John Cage


Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England

1979 • 199 pp. 65 drawings. 7 x 8 1/4"
Music / Literature / Art

$17.95 Paper, 0-8195-6067-7

Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada


Paper, 978-0-8195-6067-4


“John Cage is one of those few contemporaries who do important work in more than one art…a master of several arts, a slave to none.”—Richard Kostelanetz, The New York Times Book Review

Writings through James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, Norman O. Brown, and "The Future of Music."

“Whether sharing with us details of meals he’s enjoyed on tour, transforming texts from Thoreau’s Journal by I Ching operations, or digging ‘mesostics’ on James Joyce’s name out of Finnegans Wake, he’ll keep you fascinated, exasperated, or amused, depending on your reaction to this sort of thing. There are only two essays on ‘music’ in the book—but then, to Cage, everything is music. Recommended for freewheeling art/music/poetry collections.”—Library Journal

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