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Giorno, John, 1936-2019

 Person

Nationality

American

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

point d'ironie: God is Man Made. No.60/Sep / John Giorno., 2016

 Item
Identifier: CC-62163-10004509
Dates: 2016
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Put your arms around me, 1981

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858073143665]
Identifier: CC-48359-69385
Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

S Press Tonband: Balling Buddha. No.38-39 / John Giorno., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-49183-70223
Scope and Contents

The poems deal with the Vietnam War, homoeroticism, heteroeroticism, and Buddhist religion. Stored with Giorno material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Shit Piss Blood Pus & Brains / Giorno, John., 1977

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Identifier: CC-49522-70568
Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Spring / Small Press Distribution ; Elmslie K ; Ganick P ; Hirschman J ; Home S ; Giorno J., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-02790-2833
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007, 2008

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Identifier: CC-49491-70537
Scope and Contents Marcus Boon, who edited this book writes, Giorno's late-1960s poems see him expanding the use of found materials, including pornographic and countercultural texts, as well as the use of repetition. Indeed, poems like "Capsule," "Give It to Me, Baby," and "Johnny Guitar" are among the most rock 'n' roll poems ever written, every bit as psychedelic and confrontational as The Stooges or Jefferson Airplane, and probably just as much the product of a wide-ranging armory of pharmaceuticals, which, as Giorno has repeatedly insisted, have the potential to open and expand the mind and bring bliss. Balling Buddha, a multicolor confection printed on pages in the six colors of the rainbow, rather than traditional black on white, introduced Giorno's signature split lines running down the center of each page-as a way of both reproducing the multitracking used in his sound poems and perturbing the linear flow of text on the page. Giorno observes that the split line "breaks the lineal flow....
Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

The Unknown Loved by the Knowns [Brion Gysin] / Kennedy, Randy; Gysin B; Burroughs WS; Giorno J., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51188-72276
Scope and Contents

This is a review of an exhibition of the work of Brion Gysin at the New Museum in New York. The curator, Laura Hoptman writes that "in her minds eye Brion Gysin will finally emerge, fully formed, in this retrospective as the artist he really was...This wil be one version of him, And maybe someday all the musicians he knew and all the people he slept with or all the people he had influenced so deeply will end up giving us their own Brion Gysins." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[Untitled] / Durham Press, editor ; Giorno J., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27896-29035
Scope and Contents

In this catalogue, John Giorno's work for the press is represented by nine screenprinted poem prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

[Untitled] / Giorno Poetry Systems ; Burroughs WS ; Giorno J ; Anderson L ; Cage J ; Gysin B., 1990

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Identifier: CC-10075-10275
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

[Untitled] / Helgason, Skuta ; Giorno J ; Federman R ; Helgason HS ; Williams E., 1993

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Identifier: CC-02673-2716
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

William Burroughs John Giorno / John Giorno; William S. Burroughs.

 Item
Identifier: CC-62912-10004564
Dates: Majority of material found in 1979-2019
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Audiovisual Materials

Winter List / Small Press Distribution ; Hirschman J ; Anderson L ; Giorno J ; Burroughs WS ; Apollinaire G ; Davenport G ; Drucker J ; MacLow J ; McCaffery S ; Nichol bp ; Kostelanetz R ; Acker K ; Bataille G ; Beckett S ; Berrigan T ; Coolidge C ; DiPrima D ; Dutton P ; Espinosa C ; Ganick P ; Grenier R ; Lazer H ; Mathews H ; Owen M ; Vangelisti P., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-02453-2493
Scope and Contents

This catalogue provides a listing of current books in stock with annotations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

You Got to Burn to Shine; Du Musst Brennen Um Zu Strahlen, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-10435-10639
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds a copy of the book and tape cassette that constituted the trade edition of this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

You Got to Burn to Shine; Du Musst Brennen Um Zu Strahlen / Giorno, John., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-10418-10622
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

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