![Item #7819] Stroker No. 54 (1994) with: Ephemera. Irving Stettner, Peter Atanasov, William...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7819_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1751555796)
Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1994. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “You have to realize fairly soon / the illusion attracting you isn’t at all / what you though it was. After that, stick / with what you’ve got. Pretend the illusion again / from time to time. You won’t make it much / better than that. It’s as good as you’re going to do.” So reads “Fealty,” first of a pair..... More
[Item #7819]![Item #8743] Stroker No. 55 (1995). Irving Stettner, Paul Bowles, Bob Davis, Howard S. Levy, Em...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8743_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773413788)
Shavertown, PA: Stroker, 1995. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the literay-cultural-art Journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features a deep, variously insightful later discussion/interview with Paul Bowles (1910-1999), the Great American-expatriate Beat-&-Beyond author & composer, conducted by Charles Sheldon during June 15, 1993 at Bowles' home in Tangier, Morocco (pgs. 6-13). Also in this issue are contributions of poetry, prose & illustration..... More
[Item #8743]![Item #8733] Stroker No. 60 (1997). Irving Stettner, Tom Brown, Daniel Dellinger, Howard S. Levy,...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8733_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773413771)
Shaverton, PA: Thomas Birchard & Irving Stettner, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "From the Ghetto to the 4 corners of the Earth!' (back cover). This number of the literary-art-cultural journal edited by NYC St. Marks Place underground denizen Irving Stettner (1922-2004) features a short story, Big Brown Brundy by poet & activist Tom Brown (1950-2024). Also in this issue: The poem Reefer Madness by the poet Daniel Dellinger;..... More
[Item #8733]![Item #8741] Stroker No. 56 (1995). Irving Stettner, Tom Brown, Dungan G. Ingles, Howard S. Levy,...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8741_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773413784)
Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1995. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Dear Irving Stettner: / Do you think there is a good reason, perhaps even a better on these days, for artists to flee to Europe in order to do what they feel they must? Why is it that North America seems more and more repressive upon the spirit, turning us into the equivalent of waste-packaging, to be either tossed by the..... More
[Item #8741]![Item #8737] Stroker No. 58 (1996). Irving Stettner, Tom Brown, Howard S. Levy, Christine Maillot,...](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8737_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773413778)
Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1996. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Truman beating Dewey wasn’t not big deal to us. We all knew that a Republican with a mustache didn’t stand a cut pig’s chance of beating a solid Democrat who wore an Open Road, John B. Stetson, hat. But 1948 was a real big year for two Texas politicians. Lyndon Johnson got caught stealing votes in Jim Wells County and Constable..... More
[Item #8737]![Item #8735] Stroker No. 59 (1997). Irving Stettner, Albert Cossery, Robert R. Kirsch, Howard S....](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8735_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773413774)
Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1997. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “I take a bit of nothing / That has no name, no history / And claim it as my own– / A dirty brown stone, odd-shaped / That in my hand has the weight of beauty, / Not that it’s beautiful / But that I feel / A roundness of perfection / Even where it’s flawed; / The pock-mark of quartz..... More
[Item #8735]![Item #8739] Stroker No. 57 (1996). Irving Stettner, Pierre Jacquemon, William Joyce, Howard S....](https://thirdmindbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8739_1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773413781)
Shavertown, PA: Stroker Magazine, 1996. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Dear Tommy, / I haven’t written you in a long, long time, but just wanted to say once again how much I look forward to your writings, drawings, and doodlings with every issue of Stroker. Whenever I see your work I walk the borderline between laughter and tears, between joy and outrage, though the emphasis usually wavers slightly more toward the..... More
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