Empty Words
Writings ’73–’78
John Cage

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface to “Lecture on the Weather”
• How the Piano Came to be Prepared
• Empty Words
• Where Are We Eating? and What Are We Eating?
• Series re Morris Graves

Sixty-One Mesostics Re and Not Re Norman O. Brown
• Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake
• The Future of Music

MESOSTICS
• Many Happy Returns
• A Long Letter
• Song
• For S. Fort, Dancer
• For William McN, who studied with Ezra Pound
• Wright’s Oberlin House Restored by E. Johnson
• “I’m the happiest person I know (S.W.)




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