Various Artists: The Dial-a-Poem Poets - Disconnected

 

Volume two of the series, again a double-LP, with many of the same participants as the first volume plus the likes of Greg Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Paul Blackburn, John Ashbery, and Charles Amirkhanian.

Allen Ginsberg - I'm a Victim of Telephones
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche - Cynical Letter
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche - Letter to Marpa
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche - Sound Cycle (Aham)
John Giorno - Suicide Sutra
William Burroughs - What Washington, What Orders
Charles Plymell - 100 Flies on an Airplane Flying Around the World
Michael Brownstein - Monologue from the Top
John Cage - Excerpt from Silence
Anne Waldman - Fast Speaking Woman
Diane Di Prima - Excerpt from Loba
Bernadette Mayer - Excerpt from Studying Hunger
Robert Creeley - The Name
Diane Wakoski - Exorcism
Lorenzo Thomas - High Heel Jesus
Gregory Corso - Marriage
Maureen Owen - Body Rush
Ed Sanders - Stand By My Side, Oh Lord
Charles Olson - The Ridge
Allen Ginsberg - Jimmy Berman
Joe Brainard - More I Remember More
John Wieners - Memories in a Small Apartment
Gerard Malanga - A Last Poem (Tentative Title)
John Perreault - Nude Death
Jack Spicer - Excerpt from Billy the Kid
Jim Carroll - From the Basketball Diaries, Age 13, Spring 1965
Peter Orlovsky - All Around the Garden
Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) - Our Nation Is Like Ourselves
Michael McClure - Lion Poem
Ed Dorn - Recollections of Grande Apaharia
Frank Lima - The Hunter
Frank O'Hara - Adieu Norman, Bonjour to Joan and Jean Paul
Bill Berkson - Stanky
Larry Fagin - A Play
Tom Clark - Little Aria
Paul Blackburn - The Once-Over
Philip Whelan - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich
Ron Padgett - June 17, 1942
John Ashbery - The Tennis Court Oath
Clark Coolidge - Excerpt from Dews (8 Channel)
Charles Amirkhanian - Radii

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