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Giorno Poetry Systems - Totally Corrupt




1. Charles Bukowski | Cloud Nine / I Live in a Neighborhood of Murderers / Two Horse Collars

(3:09, Recorded at MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit, Oct. 31, 1974)


2. Ed Dorn | from Gunslinger, Book 4

(3:48, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Nov. 19, 1975)


3. William S. Burroughs | When Did I Stop Wanting to be President

(7:07, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Oct. 29, 1975)


4. Sylvia Plath | Daddy

(3:43, Recorded: British Council, Cambridge, England, Oct. 1962)


5. John Giorno | excerpt from Shit, Piss, Blood, Pus + Brains

(8:03, Recorded at Z.B.S. Media, Fort Edwards, NY, April 28, 1976)


6. Michael McClure | from Jaguar Sky: There's Cruelty in Every Jewel

(:44, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, December 3, 1975)


7. Michael Brownstein | Jet Set Melodrama

(2:36, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Oct. 29, 1975)


8. Jackie Curtis | You Are My Lucky Star

(2:18, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976)


9. Ed Sanders | This is the Age of Investigation Poetry and Every Citizen Must Investigate

(5:50 Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976)


10. Charles Bukowski | Christ, You'll Never Know / The Closing of the Topless Ande Bottomless Bars

(4:45, Recorded at MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit, Oct. 31, 1974)


11. Anne Waldman | Some Small Fires

(4:06, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Oct. 29, 1975)


12. Imamu Amiri Baraka | from Hard Facts: Rockefeller's Your Vice-President and Your Mama Don't Wear No Draws, A New Reality is Better than a Movie

(3:37, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Nov. 12, 1975)


13. Erica Huggins | For a Woman

(:59, Recorded outside The Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, August 21, 1972)


14. Ken Kesey | A Brief Disclosure

(5:04, St. Marks Church, NYC, May 12, 1975)


15. Jackson Mac Low | Guru, Guru, Gate

(2:05, Recorded at MOMA, NYC, April 5, 1976)


16. Charles Amirkhanian | Mushrooms (for John Cage)

(4:58, Recorded at BPRO Radio, Holland, Jan. 1974)


17. William Carlos Williams | The Yellow Flower from Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

(3:02, Recorded at the 92nd St. Y, NYC, Jan. 25, 1954)


18. Allen Ginsberg | Please Master

(4:40, Recorded at Columbia University, NYC, April 17, 1975)


19. Imamu Amiri Baraka | from Hard Facts: New York is Everywhere Big

(1:58, St. Marks Church, NYC, Nov. 12, 1975)


20. Frank O'Hara | To the Film Industry in Crisis

(3:50, with Jane Freilicher and John Gruen on piano. Recorded by The Evergreen Review, NY, May 11, 1959)


21. Taylor Mead | I Was in a Drugstore

(3:33, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976)


22. Jackie Curtis | The All-American Vampire or How the Bee Sucks

(3:36, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1975)


23. Jack Spicer | from The Holy Grail : The Book of the Death of Arthur

(5:14, Recorded KPFA, Berkeley, California, 1965)


24. John Cage | Song, Derived from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau

(6:30, St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976)


25. Tom Weatherly | Mud Water Shango, Blues for Frank Swooton

(1:42, Recorded at WBAI, NY, November 1965)


26. Joanne Kyger | In All This Everyday

(3:31, St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976)


27. Charles Olson | Letter 27: Maximus to Gloucester

(3:15, Recorded SUNY Cortland, NY, Oct. 20, 1967)


28. W.S. Merwin | Fear

(5:23, Recorded at WBAI, NY, April 1965)


29. Marueen Owen | When You're Down and Under

(1:02, St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1975)


30. Jerome Rothenberg | The Opening of the Horse Song, Number Eleven, A Total Translation from the Navajo

(2:30, Recorded at WBAI, NYC, Jan. 29, 1978)


31. Ted Berrigan | Today in Ann Arbor

(2:10, Recorded NYC, Spring 1970)


32. Susan Howe | There is No Good on Earth and Sin is But a Name

(1:00, Recorded at WBAI, NYC, Feb. 1976)


33. Rochelle Owens | excerpt from The Joe Chronicles, Part 2

(3:26, St. Marks Church, NYC, Dec. 22, 1976)


34. Bill Knott | Corpse and Beans

(2:25, Recorded at MOMA, NYC, April 5, 1976)


35. Tony Towle | New York Letters

(1:25, St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976)


36.Bernard Heidsieck | Stratimelo

(2:00, Recorded in Paris, France, 1966)


37. Peter Orlovsky | Compost Piles

(3:49, Recorded at Columbia University, NYC, April 17, 1975)



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From the LP Totally Corrupt, Giorno Poetry Systems (GPS-008-009), 1976




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