Ecology Day
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • monochrome
  • 28 x 21.5 cm.
  • [1] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Ecology Day

John Giorno

Ecology Day

description

Poem by John Giorno in the form of a press release issued in conjunction with Ecology Day, April 22, 1970. Poem indexes a series of actions including mailing a "dead rat," "dead fish," "bottle of beef blood," "dead mice," "beef liver," "roaches," "cow's heart," "calf's brain," "beef lungs," and "pig's feet" to prominent members of the government including Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President Spiro Agnew, President Richard Nixon, Judge Julius Hoffman, Judge John Murtagh, Mayor John Lindsay, Attorney General John Mitchell, Dr. Frank Stanton, Anthony Luce, and Governor Ronald Reagan. Poem concludes, "And if the mails are slow, let it rot."

$350.00
Condition:  Very Good. Folded in three, light handling marks and edge wear.
[Object # 26562]