AEGiS-BKREV: You Got to Burn to Shine: New and Selected Writings

You Got to Burn to Shine: New and Selected Writings

High Risk Books/Serpent's Tail, 401 W. Broadway, New York, NY 10012. 192p. ISBN 1-85242-321-8. $11.99.
John Giorno. 1994.

John Giorno has produced many books of poetry and 28 LPs, CDs, and tape cassettes. He is also the founder of the AIDS Treatment Project. This is his first book for several years. It contains many "sexual and philosophical poetry spanning two decades." Also included are what could be called memoirs that include his friendship with Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. To read his poetry and essays is to become involved. His poems are meant to be read aloud in public "he writhes and sweats and shouts and whines, and you forget you are watching a man, losing yourself in his stream of words from the unconscious." One selection contains "notes toward a Buddhist understanding of death in the age of AIDS." This is an interesting book and one that will require much deep thought. John has seen a lot in his lifetime and has experienced more than most. His poems are meant to be read again and again. Recommended for all academic and public libraries.

Keywords: Gay Men, Literary Collections

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