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Giorno Poetry Systems - Totally Corrupt 1. Charles Bukowski | Cloud Nine / I Live in a Neighborhood of Murderers / Two Horse Collars (3:09, Recorded at MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit, Oct. 31, 1974) 2. Ed Dorn | from Gunslinger, Book 4 (3:48, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Nov. 19, 1975) 3. William S. Burroughs | When Did I Stop Wanting to be President (7:07, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Oct. 29, 1975) 4. Sylvia Plath | Daddy (3:43, Recorded: British Council, Cambridge, England, Oct. 1962) 5. John Giorno | excerpt from Shit, Piss, Blood, Pus + Brains (8:03, Recorded at Z.B.S. Media, Fort Edwards, NY, April 28, 1976) 6. Michael McClure | from Jaguar Sky: There's Cruelty in Every Jewel (:44, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, December 3, 1975) 7. Michael Brownstein | Jet Set Melodrama (2:36, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Oct. 29, 1975) 8. Jackie Curtis | You Are My Lucky Star (2:18, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976) 9. Ed Sanders | This is the Age of Investigation Poetry and Every Citizen Must Investigate (5:50 Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976) 10. Charles Bukowski | Christ, You'll Never Know / The Closing of the Topless Ande Bottomless Bars (4:45, Recorded at MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit, Oct. 31, 1974) 11. Anne Waldman | Some Small Fires (4:06, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Oct. 29, 1975) 12. Imamu Amiri Baraka | from Hard Facts: Rockefeller's Your Vice-President and Your Mama Don't Wear No Draws, A New Reality is Better than a Movie (3:37, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Nov. 12, 1975) 13. Erica Huggins | For a Woman (:59, Recorded outside The Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, August 21, 1972) 14. Ken Kesey | A Brief Disclosure (5:04, St. Marks Church, NYC, May 12, 1975) 15. Jackson Mac Low | Guru, Guru, Gate (2:05, Recorded at MOMA, NYC, April 5, 1976) 16. Charles Amirkhanian | Mushrooms (for John Cage) (4:58, Recorded at BPRO Radio, Holland, Jan. 1974) 17. William Carlos Williams | The Yellow Flower from Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (3:02, Recorded at the 92nd St. Y, NYC, Jan. 25, 1954) 18. Allen Ginsberg | Please Master (4:40, Recorded at Columbia University, NYC, April 17, 1975) 19. Imamu Amiri Baraka | from Hard Facts: New York is Everywhere Big (1:58, St. Marks Church, NYC, Nov. 12, 1975) 20. Frank O'Hara | To the Film Industry in Crisis (3:50, with Jane Freilicher and John Gruen on piano. Recorded by The Evergreen Review, NY, May 11, 1959) 21. Taylor Mead | I Was in a Drugstore (3:33, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976) 22. Jackie Curtis | The All-American Vampire or How the Bee Sucks (3:36, Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1975) 23. Jack Spicer | from The Holy Grail : The Book of the Death of Arthur (5:14, Recorded KPFA, Berkeley, California, 1965) 24. John Cage | Song, Derived from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau (6:30, St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976) 25. Tom Weatherly | Mud Water Shango, Blues for Frank Swooton (1:42, Recorded at WBAI, NY, November 1965) 26. Joanne Kyger | In All This Everyday (3:31, St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976) 27. Charles Olson | Letter 27: Maximus to Gloucester (3:15, Recorded SUNY Cortland, NY, Oct. 20, 1967) 28. W.S. Merwin | Fear (5:23, Recorded at WBAI, NY, April 1965) 29. Marueen Owen | When You're Down and Under (1:02, St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1975) 30. Jerome Rothenberg | The Opening of the Horse Song, Number Eleven, A Total Translation from the Navajo (2:30, Recorded at WBAI, NYC, Jan. 29, 1978) 31. Ted Berrigan | Today in Ann Arbor (2:10, Recorded NYC, Spring 1970) 32. Susan Howe | There is No Good on Earth and Sin is But a Name (1:00, Recorded at WBAI, NYC, Feb. 1976) 33. Rochelle Owens | excerpt from The Joe Chronicles, Part 2 (3:26, St. Marks Church, NYC, Dec. 22, 1976) 34. Bill Knott | Corpse and Beans (2:25, Recorded at MOMA, NYC, April 5, 1976) 35. Tony Towle | New York Letters (1:25, St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan. 1, 1976) 36.Bernard Heidsieck | Stratimelo (2:00, Recorded in Paris, France, 1966) 37. Peter Orlovsky | Compost Piles (3:49, Recorded at Columbia University, NYC, April 17, 1975) RELATED RESOURCES: Giorno Poetry System / Dial-A-Poem Poets in UbuWeb Sound From the LP Totally Corrupt, Giorno Poetry Systems (GPS-008-009), 1976 UbuWeb Sound | UbuWeb PennSound | GreyLodge | Artmob | EPC | WFMU