This issue is devoted to handmade art work.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Roger Smith
daniel de culla
daniel de culla
David Felix
Jim Leftwich and John M. Bennett
Jim Leftwich and John M. Bennett
Maria Damon
Marilyn R. Rosenberg
Crag Hill
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- DRAW BLOOD OR GO HOME -
- DRAW BLOOD OR GO HOME -
Roger Smith
daniel de culla
Acaros
Act+¡nula
Adan
Baudelaire
Gulliver
David Felix
Cast
Stitch
Votive
Jim Leftwich and John M. Bennett
Maria Damon
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We now present some hand drawn, hand lettered work created by
visual/verbal poet Crag Hill with whom I have a special bond of friendship stretching
back to 1980. Together we chewed up that
entire decade, turning mass into energy and charging face forward into the
light. We worked together underneath Mission
Street with giant sized cameras and copy boards, watching the life of San
Francisco walking over our heads. We
performed in two bands at the same time playing at uncounted bars, clubs and
galleries. We amused ourselves in the
streets and the alleys. We would steal
the messengers’ bikes and ride through the Tenderloin, a ghetto that swallows
souls.
He saved our lives once; we had skipped work and were on the
way to my apartment that sat on top of Twin Peaks. We were speeding, babbling like Kerouac and
Cassidy, paying no attention to the road until I heard Crag scream and I saw my
death. That scream gave me the few
seconds I needed to skate through the traffic like a flat rock on the surface
of a lake. So we were able to continue
what from that moment on, I called our Charmed Lives. And we never wasted another moment, filling up
Time, using Time, painting Time.
Crag Hill’s visual poetry was the first I saw- it cracked my
head open- I’m still convinced I saw God at that moment. And speaking of God, I think we both saw Him
one afternoon when we ingested mushrooms on his roof. We could see across San Francisco Bay to
Atlantis with its fanciful climbing architecture and white mists, with people
of heightened consciousness and giant beautiful brilliant gems that penetrate
the fog with colored beams, cerulean blue like the ocean, iridescent gold
mornings, prism violet sunsets.
Bill
For sale on eBay:
BATANG FRISCO LP 33 1/3 vinyl
A solo music project from Bill DiMichele that tells a tale
of icy urban sorcery.
Now accepting submissions for issue 31. Send to julie-d@prodigy.net.
hi bill. my third piece shd be called Don't Forget to W(e)ave 3. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSorry Maria... It has been corrected.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff, Bill (as always!) Particularly keen on David Felix and Marilyn R Rosenberg's pieces. Off now to track down your lp on uk ebay...
ReplyDeleteThanks John!
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