Street Posters and Ballads

by Eric Drooker, Allen Ginsberg (Afterword)

In this limited edition folio of his graphics, songs and poems, Eric Drooker presents ten years of work chronicling the political and cultural upheavals on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Drooker traces the neighborhood's radical history back two centuries in his written introduction and follows with dozens of arresting images, depicting the resistance of the beaten-down, the trod-upon and the forgotten in our brave new economic order. These visual protests debuted on lampposts and walls, but they have long since become part of the ongoing visual and psychic landscape of the Lower East Side.

Genres: Comics, Art

80 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1998

Reviews

[HeavyReader · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is full of more beautiful art by Eric Drooker. It may be out of print by now.

I used to have a poster of the image on the front of this book. I wonder what happened to it. It may have gotten damaged when one wall of my basement apartment was drenched due to a cracked pipe. Or maybe I got rid of it after Eric Drooker came to town and acted like a dip shit. I can't remember. It's a powerful image nonetheless.