CGP 31: The Hartford Of
by Christina Strong (32 pp. Saddle-Stitched) $7 ppd.


Cy Gist Press celebrates International Workers' Day with the release of May Queen Christina Strong's The Hartford Of.  Despite being one of the 13 original colonies, the state of Connecticut has historically not been able to sustain an urban development of any significant size.  Its major cities seem case studies in failed urban planning rather than places of residence—what went wrong?  Christina Strong performs textual archaeology on the state’s crown paste jewel, Hartford, and yields a work as ephemeral and violent as the city itself.  Both clinical and passionate The Hartford Of seals in amber the strange insect crawling in the heart of the state.

From "Hartford" by Christina Strong


3.



 AND THE

 HUSBAND, FATHER,



PAIN,

 NOW. OFFICER



 GOT "LIFE" INSTEAD OF

            P.I. on

 RETIRED



NORTH END. 30

 JOB

 ALREADY ON

 REST.

 WENT HOME

 X. FENTON,



POLICE OFFICERS,

            LINES OF

                        AND MORE

 Followup

                                                            EVERYDAY LIFE. SO MANY



LEFT. ROW

 AND FRIENDS,

 STANDS

 VIBRANT COLORS -

 FENTON WAS LAID TO





AND THERE. BUT THE

IN

IT'S AN

WAS SHOT AND

HUSTLE



SMARTLY IN FRONT OF HARTFORD'S

 THAT GO OUT EVERY



       YEARS AGO, ONE OF



HIS COMRADES HAVE LONG

 CHURCH. SO MANY





                   MAN WITH A GUN



ATTENTION OUTSIDE

 A. D'ANGELO,

 IS JUST

 22ND YEAR

 THE FRIENDLY SMILE, IS



YOUNG



 DEADLY. MAY YOU REST

 YOUR FAMILY