New Haven, CT: Ye Olde Font Shoppe, 1999. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Dave Church; & with photograph hand-written by Church on Verso. "The gruff voice of Dave Church drives home a truth that 'street poetry' is as modulated and full of nuance as anything from academe. The forty-odd poems in Under the Influence depict a- chosen- hard life, but that life includes sharp sensibility and wry humor; an..... More