Three square 24mo vols. (27); (27); (36)ff. The first two parts of Johnstone's confrontational work alternate leaves of an ABC, with each letter hand-painted over a rifle target, and fold-out leaves from the Shooter's Bible. Johnstone cites his disturbed fascination with the Bible's seriousness and absurdity, feelings pertinent, also, to the current crisis of school shootings, a discourse often bizarrely met with a reassertion of guns in schools. Johnstone observes this phenomenon as partially couched in the mis-use and fracturing of language; certainly the interleaved structure of the first two volumes, spinning cyclically through their spiral bindings, reflects this breakage. The third volume relays this sense of fracture to poetry, especially those verses concerned with grief and mourning. Chief among the selection of poets is Arthur Rimbaud. A stanza from William Blake's "America A Prophecy" introduces the first part, which, too, evokes a sense of fear and reaction particular to the course of American history and how that fear is impressed upon children. All three volumes in boards covered in textured red paper over boards with printed title label affixed to upper cover. Housed in upcycled box, intentionally worn. Fine.