BOOG CITY A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER FROM A GROUP OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS BASED IN AND AROUND NEW YORK CITY S EAST VILLAGE ISSUE 56 FREE Sentenced by Fred Wh Rit Wg: Forgg Poems In A New Light B Y T I M Y U Sentenced Light Fred Wh Tlbooks Sentenced Light fers select from Cnd poet Fred Wh s collbort with vul rtts. Spnng over decde work, book highlights two spects Wh s lg dtguhed creer. First, it shows how Fred Wh deeply entwed Wh s work hs lwys been with vul rts evident sce h 1975 book Picgrms from Interior B.C. And it lso dplys Wh s remrkble bility see h writg, from book book, s prt sgle unfoldg project, e which recurrg mes, llus, preoccupt help unify n exhilrtg rnge experiment. These elements Wh s work re mde vible by book s novtive structure, which smples 11 different collbortive works. While such selecti could esily pper djoted, book uses works mselves s unifyg threds. Pges from Homg Pidg, whimsicl le collborti which Wh s text ppers cr speech bubbles bove le drwgs birds wire, pper not sgle group but spred out t regulr tervls through book. The sme true les from Anecdotl Wters, origlly terleved trnsprencies book. Here words th cyclicl text pper s if y were scrollg up pge, few new les pperg with ech iterti. These cretive respses technicl chllenges reproducg vul poetry help give book its coherence, functig like musicl motifs tht orient ltener complex piece. Eqully impressive re those sect where vul works re reproduced more directly. In Sentenced Light, Wh s ppretences prose-poem sentences pper t p botm pho strips Eric Jerve s pnormic Mexicn urbn scenes, which Wh perceives green grss identity gst bckdrop cholesterol wheels fer. The witty jgo crds creted for performnce piece clled High Te re reproduced s if scttered loosely cross pge. Ech crries lrge letter lphbet bckground, which lso first letter smller text tht superimposed: crd C encourges reder mou- / flge / r / bvrdge. The poems gred here reflect Wh s gog terest dpor, hybridity, memory, which hve been cresgly proment h work sce h 1996 biotext Dimd Grill. Wht sts out Wh s bility ground bstrct ccepts locl persl ctexts. In Pop Goes Hood, Wh serts quott from urbn orts, urt websites, Just when I thk Forge o devsttg wy my hert sps t she must mke home up I move out r secti l, stened from growl (necessry) love (necessry) s desire we Forge. Wl-Mrt promotil mterils n ccount wlk through Vncouver, wderg if neighborhoods cn survive ir corporti globl villge lexic. The lovely phorms Anecdotl Wters literlize metphors ory The rhizome river res like desert dust srm lgside quotid ment fmily: Pule s lucky number four. For those new Wh s work, Sentenced Light provides n ccessible beutifully produced troducti mjor poet. For lgtime reders, it fers remder tht Wh, s he enters fifth decde h creer, ctully returng origs memory, vi, body renewg h poetry. The crdle, Wh declres, where I wnt be. Timothy Yu uthor Rce Avnt-Grde: Experimentl As Americn Poetry Sce 1965 (Stnford University Press). H poetry collecti Journey West w Vcent Ch Memoril Chpbook Awrd from Kundimn, h poems prose hve ppered or re forthcomg Anor Chicgo Mgze, Chicgo Review, SHAMPOO, nthology The City Vible: Chicgo Poetry for New Century. He lives Chicgo Tor, where he n sstnt pressor Englh t University Tor. B Y J I L L M A G I Forge Rit Wg Nightwood Edit W h o / needs high tryg kill or truth fright we Forge. Wht th book does: Tumbleweed w e s t e r n tumbledrown self between ART Tim Peters POETRY Mtw Burgess, Luren Russell PRINTED MATTER Dld Lev, Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 URBAN FOLK Dorit, Michel Grubbs, Er Regn Rit Wg set type gutter outer between or w t lign lockstep producti. Questi: Who/needs high tryg kill or? Answer: Wht pen/tkes, throt cn return. My thumbs uchg hwritg tht holds book, its origs. I swivel book or my eyes so my body now vited Forge. Like Susn Howe s felt fcts or did C. D. Wright write tht? Yedd Morr s Crop Cecili Vicuñ s Instn hwritg Myung Mi Kim s Dur ll Forge. Felt fcts compose, compost, come. A sok k, more thn press, our fger (potg sometimes) prts. The pst hs crried me/ now becuse everythg uched somee else s ncesrs o so fter Forge I m thkg ecopoetics till lger slips th culture smshg gger root not ggerly. A root will not. A book poetry tlks with policy, mors, home, picture Agnes Plese see WAH pge 3 Blckened, Bitter, Beten B Y J O N A T H A N B E R G E R The 47th Problem Joe Cssdy & The West End Sound Joe Cssdy hs been t it for some yers. He s not n old mn, by ny mens, but mteril cluded The 47th Problem presents writer who s reched pot h life tht seems drk desperte; blckened, beten, bitter. Even title lbum suggests world-worn view. How Why re re dul sports figures represent bck--roots sound Willie Mys? Is e m shootg himself up? mny problems hd be cfrted before we even got here, 47th? Accordg website, it s reference Pythgoren Theorem ( know: A2+B2=C2), reflects Cssdy s lyricl ttempts come cclus bout unknown. In tht, perhps, re hope, but most mteril with delves dngerously depressg terriry. Cssdy s gotten some recogniti from Euro- Americn chrt, which pplies generl country lengs h mteril. I ll ssocite myself with nye willg lten me, relly, he sys, The origs Americn were more open siclly thn genre hs become, which I thk will be its detriment. We got ourselves FAR (Freeform Americn Roots) chrt, so I guess we re Americn enough. The AMA (Americn Music Associti) chrt ugher becuse y re fllg more under spell twng-required genie, but we re workg tht o. The first sg lbum, which does double duty s title trck, shows rnge Cssdy s Americn. Cssdy s gr sweepg sttements over Shu Nkmur s huge guitr sound right out Mtw Sweet ctlog. We ll kill everythg tht we love, Cssdy declres, n dds, And we re ll dyg here, though, so mybe tht s enough know tht somee here lovg us. On th relese, tht sort sttement cn pss for optimm. It s gospel sg tht expls psychology behd trditil murder-blld, Cssdy expls with chuckle, which root ll Americn music. Wht s more Americn thn tht? Plese see CASSADY pge 4 Brry Wllenste Upper West Side Ty s Bckground Ty sucked t h fr s tit it ws bitter. Sce n thgs hve been smll bit better mor s pssed, but mor s mrk rems. Even slippery eel hs hry But th dividul vpors; he doesn t emnte clouds he clouds, plurl h core. Now he thks time lterlly some dys when he s witg for bd news, sce good news feels like flse co fools pockets, he plys h tenses like jockey full stride.
POETRY Luren Russell Fltbush Unpckg Ctegorizg cn become spiritul prctice, I expled potentil roommte who remrked verbosity my movg box lbels: Lit Journls & Anthologies P-Z, Reference clu. cookbooks & mc. ppers, Wll Decort: Pictures, Brodsides, Hnggs, etc. Eventully, I sid, You fd somethg tht cnnot be ctegorized, tht d t know how pck or unpck, n ve reched uncertty enlightenment. In which box, I wder, did I put bottle lg-expired dfectnt, held for yers becuse ded mn ce used it clen cut sole h foot: Phos, Childhood Diries & Sentimentl Stuff or Mc. Bthroom, clu. pills? Drem-clung, Ge Underw dive br juke unboxed Drivg pst rust-red door unjmbed Co-operted groove side-shimmies, unflung A semlessly upholstered sol s unwound Once I fell love with n Absence. It outgrew prtment wouldn t tke f its clos. After we moved it turned tut slky, hid shdows or slid provoctively beneth my cot. Three wters now Absence restless. It s blown cross river, rrives lte when it meets me for beer. The Absence sgg: Th sg dwned dnce Th dnce dusk-drwn sg Th fll med trnce Th clng drem-clung gg d.. levy lives ech mth celebrtg renegde press Events re Tuesdys t 6:00 p.m. April 28, free Bird Dog Mgze ( S e t t l e ) w w w. b i r d d o g m g z i n e. c o m Feturg redgs from Kte Eichhorn, Sy Flor, Kte Greenstreet, Lur Sims, Nico Vssilk, with music from Stephnie Crl. Event will be hosted by Bird Dog edir Srh Mngold. Plus cheese crckers, we or beverges. ACA Glleries 529 W. 20th St., 5th Flr. And Come Dy Before See Bird Dog edir Srh Mngold Ryn Murphy Red M. April 27, 8:00 p.m. (bet. 10th & 11th ves) hosted by BOOG CITY edir Dvid Kirschenbum For formti cll 212-842-BOOG (2664) edir@boogcity.com The Poetry Project t St. Mrk s Church---Bowery 131 E. 10th St. (@2nd Ave.), $8, $7 students/seniors, $5 members Mtw Burgess Prk Slope P&P Synops Sest Not sgle heir mg five sters mens t lest e Bennet must mrry exceedgly well, but mrry for love eldest s derest wh. A beuty, Jne ctches Bgley s eye t bll mn possessi good fortune. H friend Drcy with lrger fortune decles dnce with Jne s ster Lizzy, but when Bgley throws bll Drcy flls for her fe eyes. Mry sgs bdly Mrs. Bennet, beuty no lger, publicly prounces love premturely. Indeed Bgley s love but h sters see Jne s lck fortune seek dtrct him from her beuty. Drcy fights h feelgs for her ster s oblivious Lizzy drems mrryg George Wickhm, s dgreeble Drcy s stewrd. Followg bll Mr. Colls foolhly declres h love for Lizzy she fltly refuses mrry him. A letter rrives with unfortunte news: Drcy, Bgley h sters return suddenly Ld. Jne s beuty fdes temporrily but Lizzy s beuty creses up cqutnce. Trouble for Drcy who cn no lger rest her with nguhed eloquence he declres love but fended, Lizzy rejects h fortune lts ress why she w t mrry him. They spr fer mrrige f tble. Lured by wild beuty lkes, Lizzy jos her fortunte unt uncle north where y re ble vit Drcy s Pemberley. Lizzy loves house. Drcy troduces her h ster. News! Lizzy s ster s with Wickhm. To mrry beutiful Lizzy Drcy fixes everythg. Love, Fortune. The next bll s double weddg. About Poets Mtw Burgess s poems hve ppered vrious mgzes, cludg Lungfull!, Hngg Loose, Brooklyn Review, Big City Lit, he s publhed three chpbooks: Liftf, Yeh You, series phogrphs poems, Dy After Lbor Dy. Luren Russell uthor chpbook The Empty-Hed Messenger, forthcomg from Goodbye Better, student Individulized B.A. progrm t Goddrd College. Brry Wllenste (cover) ntive New Yorker whose sixth book poetry, Ty s World, due out from Birch Brook Press erly next yer. Submsi Guideles Emil subs poetry@welcomeboogcity.com, with no more thn five poems, ll e ttched file with My Nme Submsi subject le s nme file, ie: Wlt Whitmn Submsi. Or mil with n SASE Poetry edir, Boog City, 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H, N.Y., N.Y. 10001-4754. D O N A L D How sve plnet? From D Lev s poems God s er, tht s how. Bob Holmn The Drkness Above Selected Poems 1968-2002 Selected from four decdes life mg vnt-grde, metphysicl dventures, cries from hert, zny gos, shrply detiled observt. Lev poet f-h revelti. Red Hill Outloud Books, 2008, $20. PO Box 86 Clryville, NY 12725 L E V 2 BOOG CITY WWW.WELCOMETOBOOGCITY.COM
Collect o Plenty: Lev Voices Without Borders B Y D O U G H O L D E R The Drkness Above. Selected Poems: 1968-2002 Dld Lev Outloud Books Dld Lev, founder venerble New York-bsed literry tbloid Home Plnet News, hs new collecti out h ncient poetry, s he described it note me. The poems th book go bck 40 yers. If I remember correctly, th ws time my first Robert Hll suit my Br Mitzvh. I ve met Lev t couple grgs t Poet s House NYC, he impresses me s proverbil old school, New York, bohem, poet. Lev h seventies, h time he operted Home Plnet News Bookshop Lower Est Side, hd brief stt s n underground cr (most notbly Putney Swope), ws regulr poetry ctribur The Villge Voice, worked wire rooms The Dily News The New York Times, nme few gigs. The poems presented The Drkness Above re chockfull wit, iry, kosher chicken herts, Westchester County, strology, spiritulity, tht sy very wide swth. It sort remds me poetry my old pl Hugh Fox lthough Fox dwells more lg rmblg form. In poem Higgs Ag Lev uses n old wo fllg f h sol s metphor for poet tryg perfect poem night fter night: higgs g why? Pt Higgs ws n old mn, used be n elevr operr t Forest Hills Inn used sit Mrshll s Br night fter night till closg time drkg beer sut tlkg himself he fell f h sol couple times before he died Why night fter night do I ttempt th poem? In Thoughts Allen Gsberg Lev writes bout h menr, turns defes h own rttic life vi: but he for me somehow ws lwys permittg presence. i d scn universe for hts how jewh dropout Americ, reluctnt leve queens, mkes poems: wy ds red, ferlghetti s les, Dyln WAH from pge 1 Wg Albert ssemblg gun for Ch Cnd, where hs r pentium been dumped? Do wnt never imge our grbge? Plese dffect, refect me. My fr s lep fith Englh n ocen which mny hve drowned. Syg bi zhu, fu lg, ji xue teng, shn yo, gn co, sng ji sheng, zhi he shou wu, fu cho zhi qio, dng shen. sometimes I open my mouth my mor s silences come tumblg out me until root ws smshed, I didn t know sound brekge Little Red Ridg Hood enters Forge hopeful girl gog grmor s house but re s wolf when she gets re somehow she doesn t see hir, sys wht big bekers hve sir. Greeted by ll better mutte but th no dcentive tke pth. Thoms s resnt csnts, wy thgs looked snes Recommended. Doug Holder founder Ibbets Street Press. H ltest poetry book The Mn Booth Midwn Tunnel (Cerven Brv Press), he hs just relesed From Pr New Engl: Interviews with Poets Writers (Ibbets Street), collecti terviews with poets writers. He founded blog Bosn Are Smll Press Poetry Scene. For more formti vit www.dougholder.blogspot.com. B Y D A V I D A. K I R S C H E N B A U M Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 Edited by Robert L. Gir Givl Press red nthologies differently every time. Sometimes I ll do I stright run, from first pge lst. Still ors I ll red ll poems by people I know first. And tht s wht I did here, redg Robert Gir-edited Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 nthology, skippg throughout work sppg up nmes I know: Antler, Rit Dove, Dene Duhmel, Dn Gioi, Joy Hrjo, Philip Leve, E. Elbert Miller, Nomi Shihb Nye, Thddeus Rutkowski, e our former Boog City poetry edirs, Rodrigo Toscno, even lte Arthur Rimbud. I ve found tht lookg t knowns n nthology cn tell lot, especilly sce y get tht wy by gettg ir work publhed erly ten. So s se poets crnk out get publhed ll th work it ll good, or re y simply droppg weker poems edirs who bldly publh m due ir reputt. I m hppy report tht edir Gir n t blded. I especilly dug Duhmel s You re Lookg t Love Interest, nice rmblg prose-poem which she hopes lst ditch cr service ride pickup truck from Lcoln, Neb. will help her mke her plne from Omh bck Ft. Luderdle. She nswers her driver s query bout why she ws Omh: To give lecture, I sy. For most prt I ve spped tellg cb drivers I m poet for fer tht y ll lunch how y hted ir Englh techers /or y ll tell me y re poets o beg recite rhymg couplets bout life behd wheel. Lst summer I prored documents for X. I signed f secrecy pledge. We my so lwys be nswerg debit or credit? for fee pssed us. I ld everye I ws depressed. It ws. Cme fll. I mde $40 n hour. Just when I thk Forge o devsttg wy my hert sps t she must mke home up I move out r secti l, stened from growl (necessry) love (necessry) s desire we Forge. The outptient surgery Are K fsh my respse Forge bg I tke with me wys our cells impge up tsues even if y re benign, except some us ren t well enough Forge. Der Rit Wg: I will Forge for such hert s lrge s house wrmed by rk w t shut down. Jill Mgi uthor Threds (Futurepoem) Torchwood (Shersmn). She lso mkes vul rt, works t Eugene Lng Goddrd College, runs S Books. And n poem tkes pssenger trip she hdn t expected. And nthology hs dozens or poets I ve never herd, mg m Steve Fellner whose Short Cuts tkes us from deth friend flshes bck through lst moments h life. Or Js T s Immigrnt Sry, where he tlks h grfr who hd fought World Wr II: On Grprents Dy school We recited Pledge Allegce. Everye removed h ht, except my grfr Who didn t re or try mouth words. And how bout Grce Cvlieri s L Cucrch, where she tlks childhood ply: I usully liked put turbn t ge ten become Crmen Mir with tblecloth skirt ruffled t botm pned t wt with big red flower. Before it turns bit rel, with her Uncle Phil bout ship out wr: My mor cme up begged me, Just th ce. Dnce for r Uncle Phil who s gog wy wr might get killed. My ly regret tht 250 pges poems nthology, ly 197 re Englh, rest beg eir French or Spnh. I wh y would ve cut those n-englh pges hlf used trnslt fcg pges. Or thn tht, Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 good work wrpped shrp pckge. Boog City edir publher Dvid A. Kirschenbum uthor The July Project 2007 (Open 24 Hours), collecti Str Wrs-med poem-sgs. POETIC VOICES WITHOUT BORDERS 2 2009 (ISBN 13: 978-1-928589-43-3) $20.00 (pb 300 pgs) An terntil nthology with pssite, enlighteng voices tht trnsform, chnge, trnscend borders, be y persl, culturl, or ntil s if sy with literture re re no borders for humn spirit. Feturg work by Grce Cvlieri, Rit Dove, Dn Gioi, Joy Hrjo, Peter Klppert, Philip Leve, Nomi Shihb Nye, Glori Vo, nerly 150 or fe poets Englh, French, Spnh. Avilble t mz.com or sk t r locl booksre Ingrm 419.281.1802 BookMsters 800.937.8000 Givl Press 703.351.0079 www.givlpress.com WWW.WELCOMETOBOOGCITY.COM BOOG CITY 3
OLK FOLK URBAN RBAN thretened scthg review, Grubbs broken love Buildg Jumper. I love tht it ws slow fll sger, or it sorrow tht th out, snity ensued. mnged Then y clled me stge for lst We lieu I bout h experiences rod with I love tht humns cn still produce such pers, for whom sger fllg, hs never mke csul pln for morng success, sg. Not be outde, I clled everye written. pge wrote from 1 Bloodsugrs, Derek Jmes, Jy Mnkd, get Any work rt fct; del with it. sked? In both situt sger stuck bout four hours sleep. from our crew stge jo rt. me, The He dds, It s lso sg tht probbly Kyle Erv, Mtt Sger ir five-dy Buildg Jumper sg wrpped silence. strnge pful pssivity. The sorrow My Lg I-95, Anywy? Jy Mnkd micwher he d 24 How sked over killed our chnces gettg plyed lot ur center South: Wht follows Regn, her producer Csey Holford, our own prlys before wht my even be Trffic mde our trip North Crol rr stb h mom, or fuck turkey. Probbly How Americn rdio stt right f bt, so it s dventures 12 swety men vn. My tke cello plyer Srh Bowmn hve good for us cn be s enclosg pful s bout ne hours, but we jmmed out e best moments my life ws when fetured kd self-referencg equti o. God hve mercy our souls. ed. clicl depressi. new Mn Mn CD some MGMT, everye stge hlf crowd chieved th quiet effect fsctes me, for I do Like every or Cssdy lbum (nor My Lounge, Kickf Th sg stirs up more emoti thn even hours flew. At some pot ride I scremed, TURKEYFUCKER! t p not know ny sg tht hs ever de it so 21 Prkside Prty wy describe Wht s Your Sign?, relesed Jy Mnkd clled me bout two hours lened mengs words seem cpble over Mtt sked, Would lungs. We burst rousg, never- successfully. Sger ir myrid 2007), re re lyrics gig, skg me sit, so course To grsp chievement, I thk we must berg. Is it memory slow rr stb r mor, fuck turkey? versi D t Sp Believ, group llus before or endg, Why tht? decode, lthough, th time, buildg jumpers us by pilots? turkey, I deemed him n s we ll sng Hey Jude help step bck reflect tercnecti moti with rtt hs I got re lte, rrivg t 9:30 see Derek He went for brought presented kdly rg, form Jmes rippg it up stge. The room ws turkeyfucker. (Dclimer: tht grief, tht burng Tht th joke from pcked room. I stepped f side between word, imge, music. Imges Tht decoder loss, bridge? Just Msi s illustrt, which help clrify surprgly full, csiderg we hd relly Noh Bumbch be bckground. Th sg ws film clled smiled. There ws whole crowd, dncg, vgue chote re t bck every hs Kickg The complete vrious sgs vrious wys. looked t th s quiet show celebrte Scremg. Not when it ws written. Will Ferrell e; e for microphes, sgg t word we use. I thk medievl philosophers written rchg lyric sheet lso hs ssocited imges, so upcomg snity. Wht Er Regn hs de here sunds from 90s tht need go rent.) p ir lungs, tlly unhibited, tlly used cll it turng phntsm. lmost suicidl Hevy Poems, s n exmple, I ws formed up rrivl tht I ws be We lso live culture imges tht me. She hs tken words set m music After drivg loops round downwn mselves. It ws perfect endg believg imge ccompnied by cr plyg next, which ws kd scry s I d just Wilmgn we flly re dependent words. Their power cert tempo. The meng words, stumbled venue. perfect weekend. gigntic book. Some imges, like mny huled keybord from Jy s plce ws still As we pulled up, with music, brgs md imges Wes lened over Epilogue given. We see world vully; imges, ger decipher. citt, re more difficult out breth; but I grbbed beer jumped bck csully us se dys slow moti, mentied tht our housg The next Js s wife ld us she felt like especilly those which llegedly depict tht dy come Why re re dul figures represent stge. The set ws over before I knew it, hd fllen through, refore silence. 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Somethg outlet, somethg plys very powerful performnce ll le tmboures bckg vocls. Mtt ByMichel Grubbs world sne gut sorrow it pers cert Believ. Then stright vn. frme md relly wnts with guitr. All rest musicl trppgs Ktz ok two-mute tmboure solo tht I ll mily Room hd Records Enge been r world. But know wht? If rt would Derek Jmes uncle judge hd tht follow her re gret, but never quite s uch. Wht it be like if...? never forget. We were ll drunk rowdy by t grnted showcse WE Fest XII, just supposed be sycophntic Yes Mn fered h home s crsh pd for th strg s nked solo show. These two levels meng re not exclusive. time The Bloodsugrs ok stge s DIY volunteer-run, festivl Wilmgn, N.C. my own wery ferful deci cost Whichever tken Norrn rmy. He much brver mn thn You should wtch her perform but d t ms s chief meng, closers. Their fl set ws mjestic. Everye Mike Grubbs, leder Wkey!Wkey!, mentl comfort, I ll just lten Top-500 or re I. The judge hd been so kd s provide video; Dorit s hot. bckground. ll four floors venue crmmed gret b with n embrrssg nme, ws plylt from locl clssic rock stti us with cse Milwukee s Best, we w ww.tube.com/wtch?v= So sger sts sorrow tht th pers mke biggest dnce prty tht club hd e cts trvel south for show. In remember where I ws until I die. hd few bottles whkey left. Guitrs were probbly ever seen. hs never sked. But th never skg bout MTGHWHNg70c CASSADY Buildg Jumper sg wrpped silence. How Er Regn (l.), Csey Holford, Srh Bowmn hve chieved th quiet effect fsctes me, for I do not know ny sg tht hs ever de it so successfully. I Y With cmeos from Ft Supermn, djembe plyg Btmn, blck Green Lntern, Dorit shows tht re s hero ll us. F WWANT ANT TO TO WRITE WRITE AA REVIEW REVIEW ((OR OR BE BE REVIEWED REVIEWED)) IN IN B BOOG OOG SS U URBAN RBAN F FOLK OLKMUSIC MUSIC SECTION SECTION?? 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ART Tim Peters Prospect Heights, Brooklyn About Artts Tim Peters wide-rngg dilettnte proud it. Peters s rtwork hs previously ppered exhibit Cover Me: Trde Books with Fe Art Covers t University Ariz Poetry Center. Peters hs degree grphic digitl design from Prss School Design recently ok third plce Reventg Gr Army Plz Competiti for h grphic design work Grr Architects tem. For more formti h current design ctivities, vit: www.ptrsndesign.com. Sttement: Ltely I ve been dog lot grphic design work, especilly typogrphy. One fts I ve designed Goudy Grunge, rough elegnt dply typefce. Derived from Goudy s blnced letterforms which imitte pen strokes correspdg digl emphs humnt h, th updted grunge versi mny serifs hve been eten wy levg odd irregulr forms t ends strokes. Goudy Grunge thus demstrtes how experience decy or subtrcti cn prdoxiclly result sense decorti or ornmentl flourh. With its clculted mnnert tervent clssicl form, it becomes clssicl, modern, postmodern ft ll e, dependg r perspective. Th qulity mkes it highly verstile, but ft s delicte flourhes re most effective t size 30 pots or more, for use heders, titles, s lrge-formt decortive elements. BOOG CITY Issue 56 free edir/publher Dvid A. Kirschenbum edir@boogcity.com urbn folk edir Jthn Berger uf@welcomeboogcity.com copy edir Joe Btes copy@welcomeboogcity.com rt edir Brend Iijim rt@welcomeboogcity.com poetry edir Jn Fuhrmn poetry@welcomeboogcity.com prted mtter edir Polo Jvier pm@welcomeboogcity.com counsel In S. Wilder First prtg, April 2009, 2,250 copies. Send $3 ppd. check or mey order pyble Dvid A. Kirschenbum ddress below for dditil copies. Pper copyright Boog City, ll rights revert ctriburs up publicti. Boog City publhed mthly. Boog lwys reds work for Boog City or or csiderti. (Send SASE with no more thn five poems or pges ny type rt or writg. For emil subs, put Boog City sub subject le n emil edir@boogcity.com or pplicble edir.) BOOG CITY 330 W. 28th St., Suite 6H N.Y., N.Y. 10001-4754 www.welcomeboogcity.com T: (212) 842-BOOG (2664) letters edir edir@boogcity.com IMPROVE YOUR LIFE Lern Deskp Publhg Indesign, Phoshop, Illustrr, Dremwever YOU cn publh YOU Perslized Lesss from Pro Affordble Rtes (212) 217-9528 Adverte BOOG CITY thnks edir@boogcity.com 212-842-BOOG (2664) www.welcomeboogcity.com/d_rtes.pdf WWW.WELCOMETOBOOGCITY.COM BOOG CITY 7
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