Books written by Joan Retallack

  • MUSICAGE: CAGE MUSES on Words * Art * Music

    See also Crown Point Press Brown, Norman O., xxii, xli-xlii, 42, 60, 116, 175, 309; Cage's friendship with, 161–63, 211–13; calls Cage apollonian, 163, 211-13; on death, xlii, 162n;4; and Islam, interest in, 162,212; Life Against Death, ...

  • Afterrimages

    This is the frontier where the image hovers on the edge of its own transfiguration, the threshold where poetry can take place.

  • Memnoir

    Poetry. MEMNOIR is a high-speed chase through intersections of chance and consciousness in the "experience of experiencing" our lives. Movies and memory swap visceral/visual thrill with mathematics and philosophy as...

  • MUSICAGE: CAGE MUSES on Words * Art * Music

    The entire range of John Cage's work and thought, explored in three wide-ranging dialogues, which constitute his last unified statement on his art.

  • The Poethical Wager

    ... Transbluesency: B.7 in The Glass Enclosure of the essential Transbluesency We dreamt Paradise w/you Naima Savoying Balue Bolivared in black Night Indigo Amiri Baraka, “Wise, Why's, Y'S” b.8 The mood of the blues is difficult to assess ...