John Giorno's memoir sketches a loose picture of New York's painting and poetry scenes of the 1960s but lavishes detail on the author's liaisons with Warhol, Rauschenberg, and others.
The story of Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) and America is long and rich, though to date told only in parts. The artist's innovations are so numerous—and so apparently contradictory—that doubts can…