Associated with key 1960s avant garde figures such as Ginsberg, Burroughs, Rauschenberg, and Johns, John Giorno was an early pioneer of multimedia poetry through Giorno Poetry Systems, which also distributed a who’s who of the American underground from Patti Smith to Sonic Youth. Giorno’s use of transgressive material and in-your-face, amplified delivery was also a key influence on punk/new wave pioneers such as Suicide, Throbbing Gristle, and Black Flag. Not just a poet but a sexual, spiritual, and political radical, Giorno helped pioneer the open celebration of queer sexuality in poetry in the 1960s. Subduing Demons in America offers the best of Giorno’s revolutionary poetry, from his striking Pop Art–influenced poems of the 1960s to the psychedelic, echo-laden, multitracked cut-ups of the 1970s with their explosive configurations of queer sex, spiritual practice, and the bohemian Good Life. Also here are the pared-down punk/hip-hop performance poems that Giorno performed in the 1980s.
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"Giorno is a bundle of tantalizing contradictions ... Having earned his stripes in the underground, he deserves broader recognition."
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light organ, terrifying freak show, dumped months, primordial radiance, sweet warm flesh, permanent doom, big black mushrooms, pulsing object, golden vajra, fresh stone crab, volcanic rock walls, slow wasting disease, slight dissatisfaction, incredible sweep, restless circle, little overripe, paratrooper uniform, hips slamming, kiss somebody Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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