the bowen street poems
Brian Bagdonas
Grime City Productions
Dayton, OH
(c)1992
This was an Ebay find, have to say.
Actually when I saw the image it was a deja vu moment, I felt I had seen the image before - had held the book before, but no, I had not. The cover of the booklet/chapbook was both cover and mailer. The other side, the "back cover" of the book, was actually designed to be for addressing and mailing the book out.
This has GOT to be among the first things that Brian Bagdonas created. I researched a bit and found that:
"Brian Scott Bagdonas has worked in the commercial print industry since 1992. He first got a taste for print and small "mom and pop" print shop culture as a result of making zines and record covers in support of his hometown underground music scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s."
and this book has all the markings of a creative should working out how to present a concept. He even created "Grime City Productions" with a Dayton, Ohio address.
Very inventive, for the completist - this one is a must. Especially since this one is addressed and signed by Brian himself.
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