Giorno Poetry Systems: John Giorno & Anne Waldman

New York City: Giorno Poetry Systems (advertising, mailer), 1977.
11" x 8.5" closed (11" x 25.5" open), five pages (the sixth is blank), tri-fold for mailing.

Advertising for the Giorno Poetry System album John Giorno & Anne Waldman (mislabeled as GPS 006-007; actually GPS 010-011).  This advertisement is the full first page, and contains no Burroughs.

The second page advertises the album The Dial-a-Poem Poets: Totally Corrupt (GPS 008-009), which features an image of Burroughs at the center of an meeting table with Anne Waldman, John Giorno, Allen Ginsberg, and John Cage. This album includes:

• Charles Amirkhanian
• Imamu Amiri Baraka
• Ted Berrigan
• Michael Brownstein
• Charles Bukowski
• William S. Burroughs
• John Cage
• Jackie Curtis
• Ed Dorn
• Allen Ginsberg
• John Giorno
• Bernard Heidsieck
• Susan Howe
• Erica Huggins
• Ken Kesey
• Bill Knott
• Joanne Kyger
• Michael McClure
• Jackson MacLow
• Taylor Mead
• W. S. Merwin
• Frank O'Hara
• Charles Olson
• Peter Orlovsky
• Maureen Owen
• Rochelle Owens
• Sylvia Plath
• Jerome Rothenberg
• Ed Sanders
• Jack Spicer
• Tony Towle
• Anne Waldman
• Weatherly
• William Carlos Williams.

The third through fifth pages contain the same advertisements for William S. Burroughs/John Giorno, Biting off the Tongue of a Corpse, Disconnected, and The Dial-a-Poem Poets as noted for this item.

The sixth page is blank for mailing.

This copy acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, CA.)