THE DAGGER – 1993-1997
A directionless zine with a wide variety of poignant essays.
The former president’s chief of staff is found out to conduct amatory phone conversations from the executive offices with a dazzling Walkyrie. Behind her sweet nothings, she is actually infiltrating the presidential quarters for yet another drug ring. It is said of this Mexican Mata Hari that, in self-defense, she sports a DAGGER in her garter.
– Carlos Fuentes, 1995
Soon after I got my first desktop computer, I began publishing THE DAGGER.
Factsheet Five called it “A directionless zine with a wide variety of poignant essays.”
There were nine hard-copy editions. Then The Dagger moved online and became THE FULL DECK.
Dagger #1 - October 1993
New World Disorder by Peter Rashkin
Hobo’s Prayer by Bob Brault
Baroni’s Place by Sara Jacobelli
Give Us Corn by Peter Rashkin
Jack’s Taxi by Jack Lind
I knew John Coltrane by Clifford Mosby
Coltrane Odyssey by Dave Luhrssen
Dagger #2 - February 1994
Great Dishwashers I Have Known, by Sara Jacobelli
Greetings from Nepal, by Karen Linder and David Newson
Viva Zapata! Viva la Revolucíon! (But no violence, please!), by Peter Rashkin
Soldiers of Surrealism, by Bob Brault
Four Poems, by Norma West Linder
Jake Was Here, by Peter Rashkin
Dagger #3 - June 1994
Eye the Jury, by Peter Rashkin
Catchin’ the Trane, by Clifford Mosby
Homewards, by Gary Gach
Bombs, Borders and Bazaars, by David Newson
The Diner, by Sara Jacobelli
Albany, New York, by Joshua T. Stone
Two Poems, by Michael Chapman
“Spanish daggers with bloodstained tips.”
Dagger #4 - October 1994
Shuffle. Cut. Deal. by Sara Jacobelli
Gritos de Dolor y Esperanza, by Elissa J. Rashkin
The Rat-Nest, by Robert Rossetti
The Gods of Water and Power, by Peter Rashkin
Welcome to the Magic Theatre, by Bob Brault
Sunset Blvd., by Elissa J. Rashkin
First Holy Communion, by Sara Jacobelli
Dagger #5 - February 1995
In the Shadow, eclipse chasing in Paraguay by Peter Rashkin,
A Private view from a Real Private Eye by Clifford Mosby
I have offered water copiously, an Hiroshima memoir by Hiroshi Yoneda
The Rat Nest by Robert Rossetti
Decatur Street by Sara Jacobelli
Dagger #6 - July 1995
When Busters Was Around, by Sara Jacobelli
El Plan de Carson, manifesto from the Clandestine Coordinating Committee of Carson
Clown College, by Elissa Rashkin
A Case of First Degree Photography, by Robert Rossetti
Coming to America, memoir by Ducie Fishman
Why Blacks Think O.J. Is Not Guilty, by Clifford Mosby
Keeping up with the news, by Peter Rashkin.
Dagger #7 - February 1996
Showdown in Round Valley, by Sara Jacobelli
N.H.I. by Clifford Mosby
Go, Zapatistas, go! by Peter Rashkin and Anne Moore
Free Javier Elorriaga! by Elissa Rashkin
Ken Saro-Wiwa’s statement before the Nigerian military court that condemned him to death.
Dagger #8 - December 1996
Mexico Profundo by Peter Rashkin
Javier Elorriaga freed! by Elissa Rashkin
The kids in the woods, by Sara Jacobelli
N.H.I….part 2, by Clifford Mosby
A holiday hitch by Carl Watson
The night we snorted Sammy by Mark Gomez
Breakfast at Denny’s by S. Jacobelli
Shiva, lord of the compost pile by P. Rashkin
Poetry:
- Elissa Rashkin
- Bob Brault
- Norma West Linder
- Ricarda McDonald Payne
Dagger #9 - August 1997, The Prison Issue
Vacation in Susanville, by Peter Rashkin
Four poems by Maggie Jaffee
I meet the nicest people in jail! Notes of a jailed ground sloth
The cruelest thing, by Clifford Mosby
Thoughts from Aung San Suu Kyi
A former teenage bomber, now grown if not reformed, asks: Should McVeigh be put to death?
We Shall Not Be Moved, 20th century prisoners of conscience Political prisoners – Mumia Abu-Jama;, Geronimo Pratt, Lori Berenson, Leonard Peltier, Wei Jingsheng, Chief Moshood Abiola
Outlaw Parrots (on the wing), by Bob Brault
Lao gai – China’s gulags, by Gary Gach
Work will set you free, by Elissa Rashkin
From the inside, looking out, by Donald Leeper
Interviews by Peter Rashkin:
Making slave labor fly – Boeing goes to prison, by Paul Wright