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From The American Book of the Dead, 1964
Manifesto 1
Outlaw 2
Untitled Sequence 3
From We Mean Business, 1965
Subway 13
She Tasted Death 22
I'm Tired of Being Scared 24
The Marines Who Protested 25
From Constitution of the United States, 1966
Preamble 26
Article I, Sections 1 and 2 28
Article IV, Sections 2 and 4 43
Article VII 55
Notes 59
Poems, 1964-1969
Pornographic Poem 63
Capsule 66
Freaked 74
Head 80
Give it to Me, Baby 84
Flavor Grabber 94
John Giorno's Tarot Cards, 1968 100
From Balling Buddha, 1970
Johnny Guitar 108
Cunt 120
ESPE - Electronic Sensory Poetry Environments 135
Poems, 1970
"I Looked the Soldier Guarding Me in the Eye" 139
"We Told Them to Bomb It" 140
She Half-Opened Her Eyes 141
"The Vietcong Take the Toads" 142
The Shouting Continued 143
From Cancer in My Left Ball, 1973
This Book is Cancer 144
Vajra Kisses 146
Dakini Software 157
From Subduing Demons in America, 1974
Suicide Sutra 185
From Subduing Demons in America 200
From Shit Piss Blood Pus and Brains, 1977 225
Poems, 1975-1979
Eating the Sky 237
From Put Your Ear to Stone Open Your Heart to Sky 265
Grasping at Emptiness 276
From You Got to Burn to Shinem 1994
Life is a Killer 296
I Resigned Myself to Being Here 302
Stretching it Wider 323
Exiled in Domestic Life 333
It's a Mistake to Think You're Special 338
Berlin & Chernobyl 343
Hi Risque 345
From Everyone Gets Lighter, 2007
Just Say No to Family Values 348
Everyone Gets Lighter 352
Down Comes the Rain 354
There was a Bad Tree 360
La Saggezza Delle Streghe (Wisdom of the Witches) 368
Demons in the Details 372
Welcoming the Flowers377
Thanx 4 Nothing 382
Acknowledgments 387
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Joseph Vargas
reviewed Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007 on July 23, 2011
Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007
I read "I Resigned Myself to Being Here" in the anthology UP LATE years ago and it made a tremendous impression on me. After reading this Giorno collection it's still my favorite, the poem that sums up his world view the way "Heroin" does for Jim Carroll. Don't get me wrong, Carroll wrote more than one good poem and so has Giorno, I especially like the early bulletin-style poems here from the 60s inspired by news events. Some prefer to hear Giorno read his work (he's been a promoter of the idea of oral poetry over the years, and not just because he said "You're my toilet, eat it out, I'm gonna feed you") but I'd rather eat it up on the printed page....I don't like his voice, it's sort of high and whiny. He remains an interesting writer, one of the last veterans of the Beat and Warhol eras still out there and writing....
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