Subduing Demons in America Selected Poems

"Subduing Demons in America offers the best of John Giorno's revolutionary poetry. Whether written, performed, recorded, filmed, or exhibited, Giorno's work is a shining jewel in the ongoing revolution of poetry and language in contemporary life."--BOOK JACKET.

John Giorno was an American poet and visual artist. From his studio on the Bowery, where he lived and worked for over fifty years, Giorno’s practice grew beyond poetry to encompass film, painting, sound installation and much more. An early pioneer of recorded spoken word projects, he founded the nonprofit Giorno Poetry Systems in 1965, which produced albums with hundreds of artists and poets. Giorno is best known for his interactive telephone work “Dial-A-Poem,” first presented in 1968, which invited people to call into a dedicated line to hear poems from live recordings by Laurie Anderson, John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, and numerous others. He died in 2019.

From The American Book of the Dead, 1964
Manifesto	p. 1
Outlaw	p. 2
Untitled Sequence	p. 3
From We Mean Business, 1965
Subway	p. 13
She Tasted Death	p. 22
I'm Tired of Being Scared	p. 24
The Marines Who Protested	p. 25
From Constitution of the United States, 1966
Preamble	p. 26
Article I, Sections 1 and 2	p. 28
Article IV, Sections 2 and 4	p. 43
Article VII	p. 55
Notes	p. 59
Poems, 1964-1969
Pornographic Poem	p. 63
Capsule	p. 66
Freaked	p. 74
Head	p. 80
Give it to Me, Baby	p. 84
Flavor Grabber	p. 94
John Giorno's Tarot Cards, 1968	p. 100
From Balling Buddha, 1970
Johnny Guitar	p. 108
Cunt	p. 120
ESPE - Electronic Sensory Poetry Environments	p. 135
Poems, 1970
"I Looked the Soldier Guarding Me in the Eye"	p. 139
"We Told Them to Bomb It"	p. 140
She Half-Opened Her Eyes	p. 141
"The Vietcong Take the Toads"	p. 142
The Shouting Continued	p. 143
From Cancer in My Left Ball, 1973
This Book is Cancer	p. 144
Vajra Kisses	p. 146
Dakini Software	p. 157
From Subduing Demons in America, 1974
Suicide Sutra	p. 185
From Subduing Demons in America	p. 200
From Shit Piss Blood Pus and Brains, 1977	p. 225
Poems, 1975-1979
Eating the Sky	p. 237
From Put Your Ear to Stone Open Your Heart to Sky	p. 265
Grasping at Emptiness	p. 276
From You Got to Burn to Shinem 1994
Life is a Killer	p. 296
I Resigned Myself to Being Here	p. 302
Stretching it Wider	p. 323
Exiled in Domestic Life	p. 333
It's a Mistake to Think You're Special	p. 338
Berlin & Chernobyl	p. 343
Hi Risque	p. 345
From Everyone Gets Lighter, 2007
Just Say No to Family Values	p. 348
Everyone Gets Lighter	p. 352
Down Comes the Rain	p. 354
There was a Bad Tree	p. 360
La Saggezza Delle Streghe (Wisdom of the Witches)	p. 368
Demons in the Details	p. 372
Welcoming the Flowers	p. 377
Thanx 4 Nothing	p. 382
Acknowledgments	p. 387
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Subduing Demons in America Selected Poems 1962-2007

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