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File under: Spoken Word Aural Documentary Records By Artists

Giorno Poetry Systems

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Various Artists
Featuring: John Giorno, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, John Cage, Emmett Williams

Disconnected (The Dial-A-Poem Poets) 2LP

Label: Giorno Poetry Systems

Format: 2LP

Genre: Sound Art

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** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** Volume two of the series, again a double-LP, with many of the same participants as the first volume plus the likes of Greg Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Paul Blackburn, John Ashbery, and Charles Amirkhanian. "As album covers go,this must be one of the worst ever?...or one of the best ever? Maybe even the Best ever? A disco shirt clad John Giorno, knealing on a beach in the surf as if bathing in a sea of his own bodily fluids. Then we're treated to an inset of a very creepy looking Giorno in his hotel room, prostrate,legs akimbo, like a sex tourist on his unmade bed after deflowering an underage native rentboy. Looking at the other bed in the room, which seems unused, he must have paid the single person's supplement, unless the person unknown, who took these candid photographs, is sharing the room with him. Perhaps he got that severely abused native boy to take them as part of his fee? How these images connect with the album title I can only imagine?...maybe that's it, the poetry, cover and artists are all disconnected from each other and that's the concept?
Whatever is going on in Giorno's mind, this double album has some rather good spoken word pieces on it, and is thankfully light on Rock stars wanting to be associated with Mr. Burroughs. There's little or no music to ruin the words. Interestingly, or not, I understand that one Robert Zimmerman makes an appearance on one of the Ginsberg tracks, alongside very over-rated and now dead cellist, Arthur Russell." Die or D.I.Y.

Side One
A1 - Allen Ginsberg: Vajra Mantra (Western Illinois University, April 15, 1972)
A2 - Diane Di Prima: Revolutionary Letters Nos. 7, 13, 16, 49 (GPS, New York, March 21, 1969)
A3 - William Burroughs: Excerpts from The Wild Boys (Duke Street, London, November 19, 1971)
A4 - Anne Waldman: Pressure, Holy City (GPS, New York, June 9, 1972)
A5 - John Giorno: Vajra Kisses (GPS, New York, August 9, 1972)

Side Two
B1 - Emmett Williams: Duet (GPS, New York, December 1968)
B2 - Ed Sanders: Cemetery Hill (Berkeley Poetry Conference, California, July 19, 1965)
B3- Taylor Mead: Motorcycles (GPS, New York, January 1969)
B4 - Allen Ginsberg: Green Automobile 1953 (Recorded Sacramento State College, April 23, 1971)
B5 - Robert Creeley: The Messenger For Allen Ginsberg, I Know A Man (Bolinas, California, July 1971)
B6 - Harris Schiff: Poems (98 Greene Street Loft, New York, April 4, 1972)
B7 - Lenore Kandel: Kali (Berkeley Poetry Conference, California, July 19, 1965)
B8 - Aram Saroyan: Not A Cricket (GPS, New York, February 1969)
B9 - Philip Whalen: Excerpt from Scenes Of Life At The Capitol (YMHA Poetry Center, New York, November 15, 1971)
B10 - Ted Berrigan: Excerpt from The Sonnets (Berkeley Poetry Conference, California, July 19, 1965)
Side Three
C1 - Frank O’Hara: Ode To Joy, To Hell With It (New York, September 1963)
C2 - Joe Brainard: Excerpt from I Remember (Calais, Vermont, July 1970)
C3 - Clark Coolidge: Small Inventions: Suite V (Plurals) Secante, Suite IV (Mills College, California, January 1969)
C4 - Jim Carroll: Excerpts from The Basketball Diaries (GPS, New York, March 1969)
C5 - John Cage: Mushroom Haiku (St. Mark’s Church, New York, April 1972)
C6 - Bernadette Mayer: These Stories About After The Revolution (New York, September 1970)
C7 - Michael Brownstein: Geography (GPS, New York, November 1970)

Side Four
D1 - Brion Gysin: I Am That I Am (BBC, London, 1958)
D2 - John Sinclair: The Destruction Of America (Berkeley Poetry Conference, California, July 19, 1965)
D3 - Anne Waldman: How the Sestina (Yawn) Works (GPS, New York, June 9, 1972)
D4 - Heathcote Williams: I Will Not Pay Taxes Until (GPS, New York, March, 1969)
D5 - David Henderson: The Louisiana Weekly No. 1 Ruckus Poem Part 1 (GPS, New York, December, 1968)
D6 - Bobby Seale: Excerpt from Fillmore East Speech (New York, May 20, 1968)
D7 - Kathleen Cleaver: Excerpt from Fillmore East Speech (New York, May 20, 1968)
D8 - Allen Ginsberg: Blake Song: Merrily We Welcome In The Year (Corning Community College, New York, November, 1971)

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File under: Spoken Word Aural Documentary Records By Artists

Cat. number: GPS 003

Year: 1972

Notes:

Comes in a gatefold sleeve. Produced by Giorno Poetry Systems records. --- Allen Ginsberg: I'm A Victim Of Telephones (From Planet News), recorded GPS, December 1968 Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche: Cynical Letter, A letter to Marpa, Sound Cycle (Aham), recorded Boulder, Colorado, March 1974. John Giorno: Suicide Sutra, recorded GPS, September 1973. William S. Burroughs: What Washington, What Orders, From Exterminator, recorded GPS, April 1, 1974. Charles Plymell: 100 Flies On An Airplane Flying Around The World, From The Thrashing Of America, recorded St. Mark's Church, New York, February 6, 1974. Michael Brownstein: Monologue From The Top, From Brainstorms, recorded GPS, February 7, 1974 John Cage: Silence (Excerpt), recorded Carbondale, Indiana, March 1969 This is actually the beginning of 'Diary: How to Improve the World (You'll Only Make Matters Worse) continued 1967' --- Anne Waldman: Fast Speaking Woman, recorded GPS, May 19, 1973. Diane di Prima: Loba (excerpt), St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, March 9, 1973. Bernadette Mayer: Studying Hunger (excerpt), recorded the Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 3, 1973. Robert Creeley: The Name, recorded First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, August 31, 1973. Diane Wakoski: Exorcism, recorded, GPS, May 11, 1970. Lorenzo Thomas: High Heel Jesus, recorded GPS, June 19, 1973. Gregory Corso: Marriage, recorded The New School, New York, March 7, 1973. Maureen Owen: Body Rush, recorded GPS, February 14, 1974. Ed Sanders: Stand By My Side, Oh Lord, recorded GPS, May 9, 1973. Charles Olson: The Ridge, recorded SUNY at Cortland, New York, October 20, 1967. --- Allen Ginsberg: Jimmy Berman, recorded at The Record Plant, New York, November 1971. Joe Brainard: More I Remember More (Excerpt), recorded GPS, February 11, 1974. John Wieners: Memories In A Small Apartment (Excerpt), recorded St. Mark's Church, New York, February 13, 1974 Gerard Malanga: A Last Poem (Tentative Title), recorded Rutgers University, New Jersey, November 20, 1969. John Perreault: Nude Death, recorded Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 3, 1973 Jack Spicer: Billy The Kid (Excerpt), recorded Art Gallery, Vancover, Canada, June 1965. Jim Carroll: The Basketball Diaries, Age 13, Spring 1965, recorded GPS, April 25, 1973 Peter Orlovsky: All Around The Garden, recorded GPS, February 26, 1974. --- Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones): Our Nation Is Like Ourselves, recorded Buffalo State College, New York, April 24, 1970. Michael McClure: Lion Poem, recorded St. Mark's Church, New York, March 13, 1974. Ed Dorn: Recollections Of Grande Apacharia, recorded First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, August 31, 1973. Frank Lima: The Hunter, recorded St. Mark's Church, New York, January 23, 1974. Frank O'Hara: Adieu Norman, Bonjour To Joan And Jean-Paul, recorded Suny at Buffalo, New York, September 1964. Bill Berkson: Stanky, recorded GPS, December 1968. Larry Fagin: A Play, recorded GPS, April 1969. Tom Clark: Little Aria, recorded Bolinas, California, June 19, 1972. Paul Blackburn: The Once-Over (From Brooklyn Manhattan Transit), recorded by Jerry Newman and Eugene Brooks, New York, September 1963. Philip Whelan: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich, recorded Reed College, California, October 27, 1965. Ron Padgett: June 17, 1942, recorded GPS, February 9, 1974. John Ashbery: The Tennis Court Oath, recorded GPS, February 26, 1969. Clark Coolidge: Dews (Excerpt), recorded Mills College Tape Center, Oakland, California, April 1969. Charles Amirkhanian: RADII, recorded Swedish Radio, Stockholm, April 1972.