Redtape Issue #5: White Lies (Summer – Fall 1984)

New York: Redtape Magazine, 1984. First Edition. Softcover with hand stenciled / spray-painted titles, Unpaginated, (84)pp., 7 x 10 inches. Very good condition. Redtape [1982-1992] was an underground East Village magazine that combined experimental poetry and prose with boundary-pushing art and comics. This fifth issue includes contributions by Constance De Jong, Richard Hambleton, Greer Lankton, Joseph Nechvatal, Paulette Nenner, Kambra Pfahler, Miguel Piñero, James Romberger, Walter Sipser, Seth Tobocman, Toyo, Marguerite Van Cook and Tom Warren. Cover concept by Julius Klein. Also notably includes three ‘More Dialogues’ by David Wojnarowic; ‘Young Woman in Coffeeshop (Lower East Side)’, ‘Man on Second Avenue at 2:00 A.M. (N.Y.C.)’, and ‘Busboy: new york city: 1981’.