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Various Artists - You're a Hook - the 15 Year Anniversary of Dial-A-Poem (1968-1983)

Track listing:
  1. (Last Night) I Gambled With My Anger And Lost John Giorno
  2. Old Man Bickford William S. Burroughs
  3. Song From America On The Move Laurie Anderson
  4. A Secret Solo Philip Glass
  5. No Jestering Lenny Kaye
  6. 7 Ways Of Going/Fire Of Unknown Origin Patti Smith
  7. Selections From The Basketball Diaries Jim Carroll
  8. The Talking Asshole Frank Zappa
  9. Father Death Blues Allen Ginsberg

Notes

Long before the spoken-word Renaissance of the early 1990s, poet John Giorno began issuing a series of spoken-word albums through his Giorno Poetry Systems label. This collection gathers up some of the highlights from the first 12 of these albums and includes readings and some music from the likes of Giorno, William Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, Phillip Glass, Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, and Allen Ginsberg.