GIORNO, John
(*1936)
GIORNO, John (4 December 1936). Giorno’s principal poetic innovation extended Found Poetry by chopping apart a prose sentence so that its words are repeated in different linear arrangements, with different line breaks, and often duplicated in adjacent columns. As a strong performer of his own texts, Giorno turned to electronic technology for a single capability—echoing—so that variations other than those he was saying could be electronically reproduced as faint replicas of his initial voice…