Re: Re: Re: expanding my library

If you're looking for a good text on Zen, might I suggest The Huang Po
Doctrine of Universal Mind. The 1947 translation that Cage knew was reset by
Grove with a new introduction, and is still available:

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Teaching-Huang-Po-Transmission-Mind/dp/0802150926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309099018&sr=8-1

One can find copies of the original on the used market, and they're not too
expensive.

Best,
Rob

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Stefano Pocci <[email protected]>wrote:

> **
> On 06/25/2011 11:19 AM, Ralph Lichtensteiger wrote:
>
>  dear Jared,
>
>  Here's my Cage-literature list, in anarchic order...
> hope this will inspire you.
>
>  By Cage:
> M: Writings ’67–’72, 1973 by Wesleyan University Press — my favorite
> X: writings '79-'82, 1983 by Wesleyan University Press
> Empty Words: Writings '73-'78, 1979 by Wesleyan University Press
> Silence: Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan; 1st edition (June 15, 1961)
> — essential
> A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan; 1st edition (May
> 15, 1967)
> Themes and Variations, Station Hill Press (June 1982) — out of print, but
> this is a very interesting text
> I-VI: MethodStructureInten... (Cage's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures),
> Wesleyan (October 15, 1997)
> Composition In Retrospect, Exact Change (October 1, 2008)
> FOR THE BIRDS, In Conversation with Daniel Charles. 239 pp. Boston: Marion
> Boyars — a brilliant discussion book
> John Cage Book of Days 2011, The John Cage Trust; Egmt Min edition (July
> 31, 2010)
> Anarchy: New York City-January 1998, Wesleyan; 1st Wesleyan ed edition
> (July 15, 2001)
> Notations, Something Else Press; First Edition edition (1969) — out of
> print, a great book
>
>  On Cage:
> The Cambridge companion to John Cage By David Nicholls — one of the best
> resources about Cage
> Joan Retallack, Musicage: Cage muses on Words-Art-Music, New England 1996 —
> discussions about art, aesthetics and concepts
> Marjorie Perloff & Charles Junkerman, John Cage: Composed in America,
> Chicago 1994
> James Pritchett, The Music of John Cage. Cambridge: Cambridge University
> Press, 1993
> The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life by David Revill
> The Boulez-Cage Correspondence [Paperback], Jean-Jacques Nattiez (Editor),
> Robert Samuels (Editor), Cambridge University Press (January 27, 1995) —
> important correspondence document
>
>  Books and writers that influenced Cage:
> Norman O. Brown, Love's Body. New York: Random House, 1966
> Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. (1927) Essays in Zen Buddhism. Series no. 1.
> London: Luzac. — essential
> ———. (1933) Essays in Zen Buddhism. Series no. 2. London: Luzac.
> ———. (1934) Essays in Zen Buddhism. Series no. 3. London: Luzac.
> Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, The Transformation of Nature in Art, (Sterling
> Pub Private Ltd, 1996)
> Journal by Henry David Thoreau — essential
> The Portable Thoreau (Portable Library, Penguin Books, 698 pages)
> — essential
> Ulysses by James Joyce — essential
> Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
>
>  and the writings of
>
>  Gertrude Stein
> Buckminster Fuller
> Marshall McLuhan
> Aristotle
> Marcel Duchamp
> Ezra Pound
>
>    Best,
> Ralph Li
>  http://lichtensteiger.net
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> After reading all the books suggested on this topic I'm surprised nobody
> has mentioned the I-Ching yet. It's neither by Cage nor on Cage but it has
> certainly influenced and been a companion of him for a very long time. I
> didn't think of it too until I saw Ralph's extensive list by the way:-)
>
>
> Speaking of Suzuki's volumes, Ralph could you please indicate a more recent
> reprint? (easily available) I've been wondering about buying a Zen book for
> a while and I guess the time is up. And thank you Caleb for pointing out
> Kathan Brown's volume on Cage's visual art. That's another hole I need to
> fill soon as well.
>
> --
>
> Stefano
>
> "When we separate music from
>  life what we get is art
>  (a compendium of masterpieces)" - John Cage
>
>


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