Another Booklyn Chapbook Series

Another Booklyn Chapbook (ABC)—Volume 1, Box Set, 2008

ABC ISSUE No. 1: Slaves of Christo

ABC ISSUE No. 2: 33 New York City Poems

ABC ISSUE No. 3: Scream at the Librarian, chapbook

ABC ISSUE No. 4: Like a Cure: Poems by NY Youth

ABC ISSUE No. 5: Names

ABC Series Volume II

ABC ISSUE No. 7: Not My Enemy

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ABC ISSUE No. 7: Not My Enemy

by Warrior Writers

Contributing Warrior Writers:

Lovella Calica (Director & Editor), Drew Cameron, Toby Hartbarger, Sholom Keller, Aaron Hughes, Justin Cliburn, Mark Wilkerson, Eli Wright, Fernando & Maria Braga, Jon Turner, Phil Aliff, Cloy Richards, Matt Howard, Vince Emanuele, Mike Blake, Paul Abernathy, Mark Lachance, Garett Reppenhagen, Sara Wallace, Nathan Lewis, Hart Viges, Jared Hood, Jeff Key.

Cover Photo by Garett Reppenhagen
Release date: November 8, 2008
6.25x9.25”
Letterpressed cover, offset interior.
Numbered edition of 1000 copies.
Interior design by Felice Tebbe
Series II design by Stacy Wakefield Forte, based on the original ABC Series.
In edition of 1000.

NOT MY ENEMY, shows the realities of war through hard-hitting stories and poems by Iraq War Veterans writing collective, the Warrior Writers. The collection is a rare glimpse into the hearts and thoughts of veterans trying to re-build their experiences and make sense out of the madness of war. This book highlights a variety of writing from over 20 Warrior Writers from across the U.S., from NY to the West Coast.

It is hard to fit into a life where everyone around me has no understanding that I lived my life for a year in a place where every decision I made either killed someone, or saved someone. I hope that in time we as veterans will find a way to bring our experience from war into society so our children will know the truth: War makes monsters of us all.
—Mark “Gordie” Lachance
(excerpt from War Makes Monsters of Us All)

Not My Enemy title poem by Drew Cameron

Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)
includes recent veterans and active duty servicemen and women from all branches of military service who have served in the United States military since September 11, 2001. IVAW was founded to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against the war. Members educate the public about the realities of the Iraq war by speaking in communities and to the media about their experiences. Members also dialogue with youth in classrooms about the realities of military service.

IVAW Warrior Writers Project
Through writing and artistic workshops, the Warrior Writers Project provides tools and space for community building, healing, and self discovery for members of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

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ABC ISSUE No. 6: Haiku Not Bombs

by Collectivo Haiku

Tom Gilroy, Jim McKay, Shi Yu Pai, Grant-Lee Phillips, Allison Roth, Rick Roth, Denise Siegel, Patrick So

Cover photo by Jason Workman
2008
6.25x9.25”
44 pages
Letterpressed cover, offset interior.
Numbered edition of 1000 copies.
Interior design by Phoebe Flynn Rich
Series II design by Stacy Wakefield Forte, based on the original ABC Series.

The diversity of poetic form in Haiku Not Bombs extends from one-line hokku and the Filipino hay(na)ku to linked verses (renga) and the loose Western style haiku favored by writers Jack Kerouac and American practitioners of the craft.

over Narathiwat, Thailand
one hundred million
paper cranes

missives of peace—
war is over
if you believe

haiku
not bombs
origami art of war

~Shin Yu Pai

The authors of this haiku collection are a doctor, two filmmakers, an activist, a musician, a playwright, and a poet from wide-ranging backgrounds who set out to write one poem for every week of the year. Haiku Not Bombs is the result of this collaborative project, a fluid collection of poems touching on themes of modernity, urban life and the everyday.

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• Join us July 9th at the Haiku Not Bombs book release party!

• For the unedited & original version of Haiku Not Bombs: haiku archive website

ABC Series Volume I

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Another Booklyn Chapbook (ABC)—Volume 1, Box Set, 2008

Edition: 50
Slipcase: 4.5” x 7.5” x 1”
Wraped in midnight blue cloth with orange caps including letterpress label and AIGA emblem.
Series design: Mark Wagner and Amy Mees
Label design: Amy Mees
Boxes and printing by Sara Parkel

ABC Series #1-5 chosen by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of their 50 books 50 cover of the year.

ABC #1: Slaves of Christo by Julia Hall and Chrissy Legio, 2005, Signed by authors. “Gates” fabric swatch on cover.

ABC #2: 33 New York City Poems by Angelo Verga, 2005 Signed by the author. Map endsheets. (1st Edition: OP)

ABC #3: Scream at the Librarian by Joel Rane, 2007, Illustrations by Raymond Pettibon and Cristin Sheehan Sullivan (1st Edition: OP)

ABC #4: Like a Cure Poems by NY Youth, 2007, Hand sewn.

ABC #5: Names by Jane LeCroy, 2007 Signed by author. Hand sewn with authors hair.

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ABC ISSUE No. 1: Slaves of Christo

by Julia Hall & Chrissy Leggio, 2005
4.5x7.25", 36 pages, letterpressed cover, xeroxed interior.
numbered edition of 500 copies with orange-felt square on cover.

An account of the authors' week and a half long job for Christo and Jeanne-Claude to help install the Gates project in Central Park. With an afterword by Peter Spagnoulo

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ABC ISSUE No. 2: 33 New York City Poems

Angelo Verga's poems have appeared in Rattle, Manhattan Review, Massachusetts Review, New Orleans Poetry Forum, Blue Mesa Review, Saint Ann's Review, Paterson Literary Review, New York Quarterly, The Temple, Connecticut Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Heliotrope, and numerous other journals.

Angelo Verga: poet, teacher, editor, curator of literary events, is currently engaged in "deep research" for his sixth collection, a book of love poems.

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ABC ISSUE NO. 3: Scream at the Librarian, chapboook

Sketches of our Patrons in Downtown Los Angeles

by Joel J. Rane
with illustrations by Raymond Pettibon & Cristin Sheehan Sullivan, 2007
4.5 x 7.25", 84 pages, letterpressed cover, xeroxed interior, numbered edition of 600 copies.

From June 2001 to April 2006, I was a reference librarian in the Literature and Fiction Department of the Central Library, Downtown Los Angeles . . .

. . . there are thousands of people in the streets, limping through the doors of the Central Library, beating on the pay phones, not begging for help but demanding to pull the rest of us down into their dark hole. The library is their refuge, four stories up, four stories down into a dark hole. This is the Downtown Los Angeles I knew."

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ABC ISSUE No. 4: Like a Cure: Poems by NY Youth

4.5x7.25", 2007, 76 pages, letterpressed cover, xeroxed interior, numbered edition of 500 copies.

Poetry by NYC students of musician, book artist and writer Jane LeCroy.

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ABC ISSUE No. 5: Names

2007

Poetry by musician, book artist and writer Jane LeCroy.

4.5x7.25", 76 pages, letterpressed cover, xeroxed interior, numbered edition of 500 copies.

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