Italian punk emerged in 1980, a raw, anti establishment movement deeply tied to music and zines. The Parma punk movement was defined by no future nihilism, political rage, and anti fascist tension.

PUSHE 27. PUSHER ART IMAGE. Anno 1 Numero 1. Self published in Parma, Italy, [1981]. First issue of this pioneering Italian Punk Zine from Parma. Illustrated covers, side staple bound, 13" x 9.25", 32 pages, illustrated throughout with black & white comix, photos, and existential graphics, includes articles on the local underground music scene, David Bowie, Lindsay Kemp, DADA, New Atomic Generation, and Peter Gabriel. Text in Italian. Only four issues were published between 1981 and 1984. VERY GOOD Condition: some wear/creasing to the spine margins, lightly bumped corners, light foxing to rear cover, internally, light signs of age/use overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.

Lindsay Kemp was a legendary British dancer, choreographer, and mime artist who served as a mentor, muse, and lover to a young David Bowie. He fundamentally shaped Bowie's theatricality, stagecraft, and the creation of his iconic Ziggy Stardust persona.

Here is a translation of the opening poem, I think Wednesday Addams would approve:

"cursed children, prisoners of the city, in search of an impossible and disturbing panism like askaris reflecting on the desert sand cursed children groping in a poem of alien images listening to the wind on an Irish cliff crazy stories of a life that has nothing congenial about it except exasperation and the languid memory of belle époques that perhaps never existed light ghosts that torment your being proud victors of their own battles... or eternal losers! splendid corpses that levitate in their violet dimension, in their tormented underground anguished figures in constant search of the transcendental being...... Pushers live in a violet circus"