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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
The whole Giorno Poetry Systems series (Found a Diamond in the Mouth of a Corpse, Like a Girl I Want You to Keep Coming, Smack my Crack, etc.) is full of great stuff from all sorts of sonicish luminaries (Lydia, Ginsburg, Burroughs, Nick Cave, Rollins, Laurie Anderson, etc) interspersed with great music along the same lines.
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A lot of that stuff is good with plenty of stinkers too. Am I the only one who thinks that the vast majority of beat poets sound much more interesting on a lot of these spoken word albums than on paper? Allen Ginsberg, for one, I appreciate much more aurally than I can bear to read.