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Donald Trump: The Magazine of Poetry.

Upper Montclair, NJ: Temporary Culture, 2016. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Wessels, et al's update/reworking of Sladek's brilliant, 'Ronald Reagan // The Magazine of Poetry [1968] (an image of which is included at the inside of the rear wrapper. I first read it while looping the Dead Kennedy's, "California Über Alles" [written re Jerry Brown] and their "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now" [rewritten when Ronald Reagan won in 1980].
In keeping with such a homage, the collection includes Wessels' "Why I Want to Fuck Donald Trump" (after J.G. Ballard) and Doctor Benway, Surgeon General (after W.S. Burroughs); Brendan C. Byrne's "The Three Stigmata of Peter Thiel (after Philip K. Dick); and MAGA Vortex Sutra (after Allen Ginsberg)...also including work by Molly Crabapple (two full page illustrations), Ernest Hilbert, Christopher Brown, and others. A brilliant collection of satirical work, issued upon the advent of the reality TV star's assent to the White House. Fine in Wraps. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Color pictorial boards. Square 8vo. np. Illus. (color plates). Limited edition of 126 unnumbered copies. Item #10862

Price: $75.00

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