Aerial # 6/7 – John Cage

"Aerial is one of the great bargains on the small press scene. No one interested in postmodern writing can afford to miss it."

--Marjorie Perloff

This issue includes 75 pages of material from John Cage: "Art is Either a Complaint of Do Something Else," a lecture-poem on Jasper Johns, a lengthy interview by Joan Retallack, macrobiotic recipes, and "Fire XIII," the cover art. Also in this issue a variety of poetic and critical writing, including Charles Bernstein's "A Defense of Poetry and other writings," excerpts from Melanie Neilson's "Civil Noir," the initial Yasusada publication "Renga and the New Sentence," P. Inman interview and poems, &&&

Contributors

John Cage, John Byrum, Melanie Nielson, Bob Perelman, Tosa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga & Okura Kyojin, Tyrus Miller, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Elizabeth Robinson, P. Inman, Michael Anderson, Kit Robinson, Eric Wirth, Marin Sorescu, Charles Bernstein, Jackson Mac Low, Joan Retallack, Daniel Davidson, Phyllis Rosenzweig, Janet Gray, Doug Lang, Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian, William Fuller, Sally Doyle, Jerome Sala, Jessica Grim, John Tritica, Lydia Tomkiw, Nick Piombino, Mark Andrew Nowak, Tom Mandel, Daniel Barbiero, Steve Benson, Michael Albert & Noam Chomsky, Andrew Levy