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John Cage recites I-ching mesostics / Thin Air Video ; poetry video by Mitch Corber.
LIBRA DVD 025 220
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Civil disobedience, author.
- Cage, John. Anarchy, author, performer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cage, John--Poetry.
- Cage, John.
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Composers--United States.
- Composers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Literary readings.
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Poetry.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Cage recites I-ching mesostics
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Thin Air Video, 2009.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Cage's ... I-ching mesostic poetic lecture Anarchy is achieved by his 'writing through' 30 quotations from Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience ... [Anarchy is composed] with the aid of a computer program to simulate the coin toss of the I-ching"--Container.
- Participant:
- John Cage reading his poetry.
- Notes:
- "Documentary"--Disc label.
- Filmed as part of Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, N.Y., January 1989; digitally remastered onto DVD, May 2009.
- Contains:
- Cage, John. Anarchy, author, performer.
- OCLC:
- 648031920
- Publisher Number:
- 510 Thin Air Video
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