LOCKLIN POEM IN BLANK VERSE

Although I very much enjoyed reading the poem honoring John Cage in Book Review, I feel duty-bound to inform you that it appears to have been plagiarized, in its entirety, from a manuscript we are considering publishing, entitled “The Wit and Wisdom of the Moral Majority, Volume II.”

JOHN DANIEL

JOHN DANIEL & CO. PUBLISHERS

SANTA BARBARA

Homage to John Cage

by Gerald Locklin

Editor’s Note: Gerald Locklin’s poem is reprinted above as it appeared in the April 30, 1989, Book Review. John Cage is the composer of, among other works, 4’33,” which consists of a pianist sitting at his instrument in silence for four minutes and 33 seconds.