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Trieste mia – Tristezze di Chopin (1982)

Sarenco & Franco Verdi

Sarenco & Franco Verdi

Compilation title: Cold Turkey Press / Klacto Present

Title: John Giorno: For Fred Herko (Track 09)

Publisher: Gerard Belart, Carl Weissner, Cold Turkey Press & Klactoveedsesteen, Rotterdam

Date: 1968

Medium: record 30 cm + insert

The poetry work For Fred Herko by John Giorno is part of the Cold Turkey Press / Klacto Present compilation, which was released as part of the 1972 'Poetry International Festival Rotterdam. The record contains ten works by avant-garde poets who stood out at the time, whose readings were recorded by Carl Weissner between 1966 and 1968. Corld Turkyey Press was founded by Gerard Bellaart in Rotterdam in 1970 and is now considered a pioneering, progressive publisher of new and contemporary poetry in its time. It published work by beat poets such as Leonard Cohen and Sinclair Beiles, as well as Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders and others.

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Biography: Sarenco und Franco Verdi