V/A - Disconnected LP

Original 1974 LP. Factory-sealed.

"American label set up in 1972 by the poet John Giorno. Mostly credited on releases as Giorno Poetry Systems records, Giorno Poetry Systems tapes and Giorno Poetry Systems video.
The earliest releases were exclusively poetry collections of the "Dial-A-Poets" (John Giorno, William S Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage etc.): "In 1961 I was a young poet who hung out with young artists like Andy Warhol, Bob Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, as well as with members of the Judson Dance Theatre. The use of modern mass media and technologies by these artists made me realize that poetry was 75 years behind painting and sculpture, dance and music. And I thought, if they can do it, why can't I do it for poetry. Why not try to connect with an audience using all the entertainments of ordinary life: television, the telephone, record albums, etc? It was the poet's job to invent new venues and make fresh contact with the audience. This inspiration gave rise to Giorno Poetry Systems" - Giorno Poetry Systems

Tracklist:

A1 – Allen Ginsberg: I'm A Victim Of Telephones 1:30

A2 – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche: Cynical Letter, A Letter To Marpa, Sound Cycle (Aham) 7:05

A3 – John Giorno: Suicide Sutra 7:17

A4 – William S. Burroughs: What Washington, What Orders, From Exterminator 7:01

A5 – Charles Plymell: 100 Flies On An Airplane Flying Around The World, From The Thrashing Of America 2:54

A6 – Michael Brownstein: Monologue From The Top, From Brainstorms 1:46

A7 – John Cage: Excerpt From Silence 1:55

B1 – Anne Waldman: Fast Speaking Woman 5:32

B2 – Diane Di Prima: Excerpt From Loba 2:18

B3 – Bernadette Mayer: Excerpt From Studying Hunger 3:31

B4 – Robert Creeley: The Name 1:14

B5 – Diane Wakoski: Exorcism 2:25

B6 – Lorenzo Thomas: High Heel Jesus 1:22

B7 – Gregory Corso: Marriage 7:20

B8 – Maureen Owen: Body Rush 0:52

B9 – Ed Sanders: Stand By My Side, Oh Lord 2:13

B10 – Charles Olson: The Ridge 2:42

C1 – Allen Ginsberg: Jimmy Bearman 4:04

C2 – Joe Brainard: Excerpt From More I Remember More 6:33

C3 – John Wieners: Excerpt From Memories In A Small Apartment 4:35

C4 – Gerard Malanga: A Last Poem (Tentative Title) 0:40

C5 – John Perreault: Nude Death 1:38

C6 – Jack Spicer: Excerpt From Billy The Kid 3:43

C7 – Jim Carroll: From The Busterball Diaries, Age 13, Spring 1965 3:43

C8 – Peter Orlovsky: All Around The Garden 4:32

D1 – Imamu Amiri Baraka: Our Nation Is Like Ourselves 4:42

D2 – Michael McClure: Lion Poem 2:08

D3 – Ed Dorn: Recollections Of Grande Apacharia 4:28

D4 – Frank Lima: The Hunter 1:35

D5 – Frank O'Hara: Adieu Norman, Bonjour To Joan And Jean Paul, From Lunch Poems 3:07

D6 – Bill Berkson: Stanky 0:16

D7 – Larry Fagin: A Play 0:18

D8 – Tom Clark: Little Aria 0:38

D9 – Paul Blackburn: The Once-Over, From Brooklyn Manhattan Trancit 1:13

D10 – Philip Whelan: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich 1:56

D11 – Ron Padgett: June 17, 1942 4:18

D12 – John Ashbery: The Tennis Court Oath 1:56

D13 – Clark Coolidge: Excerpt From Dews (8 Channel) 1:07

D14 – Charles Amirkhanian: Radii 2:05