Giorno Poetry Systems: Who You Staring At? (1982)

New York City: Giorno Poetry Systems (advertising, mailer), 1982.
11" x 8.5" closed (11" x 25.5" open), six pages, tri-fold for mailing.

Advertising for the Giorno Poetry Systems album Who You Staring At? with Glenn Branca and John Giorno.  This album is the first full page, and contains no Burroughs.

On the second page are two advertisements, one for The Nova Convention (cassette version) and Sugar, Alcohol, & Meat: The Dial-a-Poem Poets. 

The Nova Convention is a recording of the 1977 event, and includes:

• Laurie Anderson
• William S. Burroughs
• John Cage
• Allen Ginsberg
• John Giorno
• Philip Glass
• Brion Gysin
• Julia Heyward
• Timothy Leary
• Les Levine
• Peter Orlovsky
• Ed Sanders
• Patti Smith
• Terry Southern
• Anne Waldman
• Robert Anton Wilson
• Frank Zappa

Sugar, Alcohol, & Meat, which features photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe of John Giorno, William S. Burroughs, and John Ashberry on the front cover, includes:

• Kathy Acker,
• Miguel Algarin,
• Beth Anderson
• John Ashberry
• Barbara Barg
• Regina Beck
• Charles Bernstein
• Ted Berrigan
• William S. Burroughs
• William S. Burroughs, Jr.
• John Cage
• Tom Carey
• Charlotte Carter
• Didi Susan Debelyew
• Cliff Fyman
• Allen Ginsberg
• John Giorno
• Daniela Giosetti
• Bernard Heidsieck
• Peter Gordon
• Bob Holman
• Rochelle Kraut
• Mitchell Kreigman
• Steve McCafferty
• Robin Messing
• Charlie Morrow
• Eileen Myles
• The Nuyorican Poets
• Miguel Pinero
• Ron Padgett
• Rene Picard
• Patti Smith
• Gary Snyder
• Ned Sublette
• Paul Violi
• Andrei Vosnesensky
• Anne Waldman

On the third page are two advertisements, one for the LP Polyphonix 1, and the other for a radio-only release on reel-to-reel tapes entitled Radio Poets.

Polyphonix 1 includes:

• Tahar Ben Jelloun
• Julian Blaine
• Eberhard Blum
• Jean-François Bory
• François Dufrene
• Jean Pierre Faye
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Allen Ginsberg
• John Giorno
• Michel Giroud
• Brion Gysin
• Joel Haubaut
• Bernard Heidsieck
• Dyali Karam
• Jean-Jacques Lebel
• Gherasin Lucas
• Mandiargues
• Taylor Mead
• Michele Metail
• Angeline Nevue
• Peter Orlovsky
• Jerome Rothenberg
• Maurice Roche
• Sahli

Radio Poets which is "a series of 30 poets performing 2 to 6 minute poems" includes:

• Kathy Acker
• Helen Adam
• Charles Amirkhanian
• Beth Anderson
• Barbara Barg
• Amiri Baraka
• Charles Bukowski
• William S. Burroughs
• John Cage
• Tom Carey
• Jim Carroll
• Gregory Corso
• Jane Cortez
• Jackie Curtis
• Philip Glass
• Brion Gysin
• Michael McClure
• Meredith Monk
• Miguel Pinero
• Terry Southern
• Patti Smith
• Gary Snyder
• Charles Stein
• Ned Sublette
• Jerome Washington
• Robert Wilson and Christopher Knowles
• Andrei Vosnesensky
• Frank Zappa

The fourth page is an order form.

The fifth page is an advertisement for You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With, an album with Laurie Anderson (seven tracks), John Giorno (three tracks), and William S. Burroughs performing on The Red Night Tour from:

• Cities of the Red Night
• The Place of Dead Roads
• Nova Express 
• "Twilight's Last Gleamings"

The sixth page contains advertisements for William S. Burroughs/John Giorno and John Giorno & Anne Waldman albums.

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