John Cage Diary

Now available in an expanded paperback edition, 'Diary' documents Cage's assessment of the time in which he lived, as well as his often eerie premonitions about the world we inhabit today. With a great sense of play and purpose, Cage traverses wide territories, from the everyday details of life to ideas on how to nourish the world. He employed chance operations not only to determine the word count and the use of various fonts but also the number of letters per line, the patterns of indentation, and – in the case of part three, originally published by Something Else Press – the color. The unusual visual variations on the page become almost musical, while the language takes on a physical and acoustic presence. This expanded paperback edition reproduces the 2015 hardcover edition, featuring a new essay by mycologist and Cage enthusiast David Rose and, most importantly, an appendix that includes many facsimile pages from Cage's handwritten notebook of a ninth, in-progress part.