Bibliography & Resources



Cage, John. Sixty-two Mesostics re: Merce Cunningham (musical score)
    New York: Henmar Press, 1971.


John Cage Computer Programs [on-line]
    (Andrew Culver, author. Date of authorship unknown. Accessed November 16, 2003).
    Available at: http://anarchicharmony.org/People/Culver/CagePrograms.html


The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage's "What You Say" [on-line]
    (Marjorie Perloff, author. Date of authorship unknown. Accessed November 18, 2003).
    Available at: http://www.ubu.com/papers/perloff02.html


Perloff, Marjorie. Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991


Shultis, Christopher. Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition.
    Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1998.


Weinberger, Eliot. American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders
    New Yorks: Marsilo Publishers, 1993.
 

Links to Other Mesostic-related Materials


  • A Cage Mesostic about Raphael Mostel, on Mostel's website. Includes a scan of the Cage autograph version.
  • A collection of Cage Quotes, some mentioning and describing mesostics
  • An open poetry call from Resolution Rider, to create poems on 'RESOLUTION'. Contains photos of mesostics and acrostics used in visual media
  • An open letter from Jackson Mac Low to Nick Piombino, discussing the differences between Mac Low's work and Cage's.
  • The MOOlipo, a MOO where each room implements a different text manipulation algorithm.


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