Marcus Boon, who edited this book writes, Giorno's late-1960s poems see him expanding the use of found materials, including pornographic and countercultural texts, as well as the use of repetition. Indeed, poems like "Capsule," "Give It to Me, Baby," and "Johnny Guitar" are among the most rock 'n' roll poems ever written, every bit as psychedelic and confrontational as The Stooges or Jefferson Airplane, and probably just as much the product of a wide-ranging armory of pharmaceuticals, which, as Giorno has repeatedly insisted, have the potential to open and expand the mind and bring bliss. Balling Buddha, a multicolor confection printed on pages in the six colors of the rainbow, rather than traditional black on white, introduced Giorno's signature split lines running down the center of each page-as a way of both reproducing the multitracking used in his sound poems and perturbing the linear flow of text on the page. Giorno observes that the split line "breaks the lineal flow. Because you're no longer just reading left to right and down. And then the repetitions have to do with slowing the mind because when you read something twice you perceive it in a different way because your mind sees it in a different way. In performance those devices work in a more musical way: Repetitions are like songs-a song is a repetition, and the second repeating of a line changes its tonal qualities. When I repeat a line in performance, very intentionally every repetition is said from a different point of view. And in rehearsing a poem, the musical qualities inherent in the words and phrases are discovered and developed, and become fixed as a song." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.