John Giorno
Poems by John Giorno
New York City, USA: Mother Press, 1967
64 pp., 8 × 6 1⁄4”, softcover
Edition of 1000
Giorno’s first book, edited by Peter Schjeldahl, features new poems, and pieces that had previously been published in Mother, Spice and C magazines. Titles include Paratrooper, Alone on a Beam, Leather, She Tasted Death and Pornographic Poem.
The book’s cover are frontispiece are by Robert Rauschenberg and Les Levine, respectively. Both were close friends with Giorno. Of the thousand copies produced, fifty were signed and numbered by all three.
The trade edition can be purchased by Giorno Poetry Systems, here, for $250 US. Granary Books has a copy of the edition signed by Giorno, Rauschenberg and Levine for $1000 US, here.
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