John Cage is also featured in

  1. 504  John Cage: Man and Myth

  1. 510 CUTTING EDGE SERIES

  2. John Cage Recites I-Ching Mesostics

  3. John Cage's feature-length mesostic poetic lecture Anarchy is achieved by his "writing through" 30 quotations from Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience.

  4. Composed with the aid of a computer program to simulate the coin toss of the I-Ching, Cage gives Thoreau's very words a brand new meaning by exploding the original text in ways that de-familiarize and re-energize the words.

  5. Cage's invention the "mesostic" is a formal variant of the acrostic. The mesostic is a writing form where several horizontal lines of poetry are written, one on top of the other, and a word or name is spelled vertically down the middle through a strategic placement of letters.

  6. 1989-2009, 75 min, St. Marks Poetry Project

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