224 pages, English. The first monograph dedicated to one of the most radical voices to emerge from the New York downtown scene of the 1960s. Poet, performer, painter, activist, Buddhist practitioner - Giorno (1936-2019) spent more than six decades bringing the written word off the page and into performance, technology, and visual art, operating as a conduit between coexisting cultural communities that rarely spoke to each other. The Beats, Andy Warhol's Factory, punk, queer counterculture, anti-war activism - he was there for all of it, not at the margins but right at the nerve center, wiring everything together.

This publication, accompanying the retrospective exhibition at MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna curated by Lorenzo Balbi, maps the many ways Giorno wove poetry into daily life - words on the wall, on the performance stage, on LP vinyl records, on the telephone through the iconic Dial-A-Poem, one of the most visionary art projects of the late 20th century. His collaborators read like a who's who of American creative life: Robert Rauschenberg, William Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, Ugo Rondinone. A wide range of archival documents, images and ephemera form an intimate portrait of a man who understood that language is not something you read - it's something you do, something you live, something you throw into the world and see what comes back.

Edited by Lorenzo Balbi, Anthony Huberman and Bonnie Whitehouse, with texts by Kyle Dacuyan, Nicola Ricciardi, Ugo Rondinone, Laura Hoptman and Drew Sawyer. 224 pages, English, softcover. An essential document.