Giorno Poetry Systems Catalogue #19: Señor Kaposi














New York City: Giorno Poetry Systems (stapled catalogue), 1989.

Catalogue mailer for the John Giorno-run Giorno Poetry Systems label, including the text of Burroughs' "Señor Kaposi". 

Advertisements for multiple Burroughs-related recordings and films, including:

  • Old Habits Die Hard (video)
  • Gang of Souls (video)
  • Like A Girl, I Want You To Keep Coming (LP/Cassette/CD)
  • Smack My Crack (LP/Cassette/CD)
  • A Diamond Hidden In The Mouth Of A Corpse (LP/Cassette)
  • Burroughs (video, by Howard Brookner)
  • Better An Old Demon Than A New God (LP)
  • You're A Hook (LP)
  • You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money With (LP/Cassette)
  • The Nova Convention (Cassette)
  • Poetry In Motion (video, by Ron Mann)
Towards the back of the catalogue there is a photo of William S. Burroughs with Adam Roth, Keith Haring, C. P. Roth, John Waters, Philip Glass, John Giorno, Debbie Harry, and Laurie Anderson at "Where the Rubber Meets the Road", AIDS Treatment Project Benefit at the Beacon Theatre, NYC, December 16, 1987.

This copy addressed to famous art curator Henry Geldzahler (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, etc.)

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