curated poetry systems

Ubu has posted the Giorno Poetry System recordings. A capricious selection – all links are to MP3s:

William Carlos Williams:

“The Yellow Flower” (1954)

Edwin Denby:

“The Shoulder”/”The Subway”/”Over Manhattan Island”/”Disorder, mental, strikes me”/”Suppose there’s a cranky woman inside me” (1974)

Frank O’Hara:

“To the Film Industry in Crisis” (with Jane Freilicher & John Gruen, 1959)

“Ode to Joy”/”To Hell with It” (1963)

“Poem”/”Poem” (1963)

“Adieu Norman, Bonjour to Joan and Jean Paul” (1964)

“Having a Coke with You” (1965)

John Ashbery

“A Blessing in Disguise” (1966)

from “Litany” (1980?)

Kenneth Koch:

“Spring” (1966)

Joe Brainard:

from I Remember (1970)

from More I Remember More (1974)

Ron Padgett:

“June 17, 1942” (1974)

“No Title” (1978)

“Zzzzzz” (1980?)

Ted Berrigan:

from “Memorial Day” (1974)

“Today in Ann Arbor” (1970)

Charles Olson:

“Maximus of Gloucester (‘Only My Written Word’)” (1967)

“The Ridge” (1967)

“Letter 27: Maximus to Gloucester” (1967)

Ishmael Reed:

“Sky Diving” (1977)

John Cage:

“Mushroom Haiku” (1969)

excerpt from Silence (1969)

Mureau” (1975)

“Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake“ (1976?)

“Song, Derived from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau” (1976)

“Five Stories in the Style of Indeterminacy“ (1979)

Claes Oldenburg:

“June Was”/”Panodramdra” (1976)

Emmett Williams:

“Duet” (1968)

Jackson Mac Low:

“Guru, Guru, Gate” (1976)

with hidden noise

“One thing I've learned since I was born / that I must die since I was born” (Robert Filliou)

One thought on “curated poetry systems”

Mentions

Leave a Reply