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The Dial-A-Poem Poets: Totally Corrupt (1976), front and back covers

The Dial-A-Poem Poets: Totally Corrupt (1976), front and back covers

The Dial-A-Poem Poets: Totally Corrupt (1976), inside spread

The Dial-A-Poem Poets: Totally Corrupt (1976), inside spread

Totally Corrupt - (GPS 008-009) - AV Recordings - John Giorno Foundation

Side One
1. Charles Bukowski – Cloud Nine, I Live In A Neighborhood of Murderers, Two Horse Collars (MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit, Michigan, October 31, 1974)
2. Ed Dorn – Excerpts from Gunslinger, Book 4 (St. Mark’s Church, New York, November 19, 1975)
3. William S. Burroughs – When Did I Stop Wanting To Be President (St. Mark’s Church, New York, October 29, 1975)
4. Sylvia Plath – Daddy (The British Council, Cambridge, England, 1972)
5. John Giorno – Excerpts from Shit, Piss, Blood, Pus & Brains (ZBS Media, Fort Edward, New York, April 28, 1976)
6. Michael McClure – From Jaguar Sky : There's Cruelty In Every Jewel (St. Mark’s Church, New York, December 3, 1975)
7. The Dial-A-Poem Poets – Jet Set Melodrama (St. Mark’s Church, New York, October 29, 1975)
8. Jackie Curtis – You Are My Lucky Star (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)

Side Two
1. Ed Sanders – This Is The Age Of Investigation Poetry And Every Citizen Must Investigate (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)
2. Charles Bukowski – Christ, You'll Never Know; The Closing Of The Topless And Bottomless Bars (MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit, Michigan, October 31, 1974)
3. Anne Waldman – Some Small Fires (St. Mark’s Church, New York, October 29, 1975)
4. Imamu Amiri Baraka – Hard Facts: Rockefeller's Your Vice-President And Your Mama Don't Wear No Draws, A New Reality Is Better Than A New Movie (St. Mark’s Church, New York, November 12, 1975)
5. Erica Huggins – For A Woman (Outside the Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, August 21, 1972)
6. Ken Kesey – A Brief Discourse (St. Mark’s Church, New York, May 12, 1975)
7. Jackson MacLow – Excerpt from Guru, Guru, Gate (Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 5, 1976)
8. Charles Amirkhanian – Mushrooms (for John Cage) (VPRO Radio, Holland, January 1974)

Side Three
1. William Carlos Williams – The Yellow Flower, from Pictures From Brueghel and Other Poems (92nd Street YM-YWMA, New York, January 25, 1954)
2. Allen Ginsberg – Please Master (Columbia University, New York, April 17, 1975)
3. Imamu Amiri Baraka – From Hard Facts: New York Is Everywhere Big (St. Mark’s Church, New York, November 12, 1975)
4. Frank O'Hara – To The Film Industry In Crisis (The Evergreen Review, New York, May 11, 1959)
5. Taylor Mead – I Was In A Drugstore (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)
6. Jackie Curtis – The All-American Vampire Or How The Bee Sucks (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)
7. Jack Spicer – From The Holy Grail: The Book Of The Death Of Arthur (KPFA, Berkeley, California, 1965)
8. John Cage – Song, Derived from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)

Side Four
1. Tom Weatherly – Mud Water Shango, Blues For Frank Swooton (WBAI, New York, November 1965)
2. Joanne Kyger – In All This Everyday (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1976)
3. Charles Olson – Letter 27: Maximus To Gloucester (SUNY at Cortland, New York, October 20, 1967)
4. W. S. Merwin – Fear (WBAI, New York, April 1975)
5. Maureen Owen – When You're Down And Under (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1975)
6. Jerome Rothenberg – The Opening Of The Horse Song, Number Eleven, A Total Translation From The Navajo (New York City, Spring 1970)
7. Ted Berrigan – Today In Ann Arbor (St. Mark’s Church, New York, November 15, 1975)
8. Susan Howe – There Is No Good On Earth And Sin Is But A Name (WBAI, New York, February 1976)
9. Rochelle Owens – Excerpt from The Joe Chronicles, Part 2 (Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 5, 1976)
10. Bill Knott – Corpse And Beans (MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit, Michigan, December 10, 1974)
11. Tony Towle – New York Letters (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)
12. Bernard Heidsieck – Stratimelo (Paris, France, 1966)
13. Peter Orlovsky – Compost Piles (Columbia University, New York, April 17, 1975)

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