GIORNO POETRY SYSTEMS
VIII. GIORNO POETRY SYSTEMS
By WHITE COLUMNSFounded by the poet and artist John Giorno in the late 1960s, in the context of the civil rights movement and an increasingly divisive Vietnam War, Giorno Poetry Systems sought to create both new audiences and a new relevance for poetry.
GIORNO POETRY SYSTEMS LP COVERS
By Alan LichtMy introduction to Keith Haring came via his cover art for the 1985 Giorno Poetry Systems (GPS)compilation LP A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of A Corpse.
BURROUGHS ON GPS
By Shannon EbnerI was twenty-six when I purchased the book that introduced me to William Burroughs’s cut-up tape experiments.
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