John Cage Uncaged Is Still Cagey

The two texts in this book began as a pair of talks I gave back in 1989 at the Strathmore Festival celebrating John Cage”s 77th birthday. They started as my belated response to the power and elusiveness of the poetry of his book Silence, that I had recognized and advocated since the early 60”s; and if they finally go spinning off to my own concerns, this book is still for John Cage, the poet, who always was a poet, a powerful poet, long before he ever dreamed of writing a mesostic.” David Antin