M Writings '67 - '72 by John Cage
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Year: 2000
Format: Softcover
Edition: Second
Condition: New
One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries “to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them.” M Writings is mainly compiled of mesostics (a poem or text arranged so that a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text) inspired by music, mushrooms, Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, Marshall McCluhan, etc. and includes "Mureau"-composed from the writings of Henry David Thoreau.