Collected anthology of John Cage's writings from 1979 - 1982. "In 'X,' Cage continues his work with mesostics (poems with words written down the middle). Using the author's names as the central words, he takes us through 'Finnegans Wake," Pound's 'Cantos,' and suggests in 'AN ALPHABET' that the ABCs of Cage's own way of enjoying daily life are in the works of James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, and Erik Satie."