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Public Joy : Free Poems by Bru Dye [Inscribed]

DYE, Bru

DYE, Bru

NY: [Self-published], 1984. [30]pp. 4to. Side-stapled in illustrated wraps, with photograph of author to rear. Toning and mild soiling to covers; light creasing along front hinge. Very good or better. Signed and inscribed by Dye to front cover verso: "1-11-85 Dear Carl, Here's a hopeful blast of poetry to open '85 Thank you for your friendship. Love Bru." One poem also with extensive autograph corrections in pencil.

26 poems touching on queer love, life, and nightlife in New York. In addition to his work as a poet, Dye notable as editor of two contemporaneous publications, the poetry journal Seditious Delicious, and the queer anarchist zine Aqua. A strong collection from a figure who played a significant, if short-lived (and now overlooked), role in downtown literary and subculture circles. OCLC locates only a single holding, at Texas A&M. 

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