Giorno Poetry Systems Catalogue #20 (1993)

New York City: Giorno Poetry Systems (promotional, catalogue), 1993.
11" x 6" (closed), 11" x 30" (open), five panels per side.

Giorno Poetry Systems Catalogue #20, a mail-in catalogue for albums and films produced by John Giorno's Giorno Poetry Systems (New York City), produced in 1993. This shows a cover image by John Giorno of a topless Burroughs on “August 17, 1991, five weeks after triple-bypass heart surgery.”

This includes nine items with Burroughs' contributions, including:

• Cash Cow: The Best of Giorno Poetry Systems
• Like a Girl, I Want You to Keep Coming
• Smack My Crack
• You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With
• A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse
• Howard Brookner's Burroughs (the Movie)'
• Gang of Souls
• Poetry in Motion
• The Nova Convention

This copy of the catalogue was acquired from Philip Smith, Bookseller (Berkeley, California, US).