Avalanche 1 -- One Uncollected, Two First Appearance Charles Bukowski Poems (1966)

Published in 1966, Avalanche 1 featured three first appearances by Bukowski:

A Conversation on Morality, Eternity and Copulation
A Kind Of Lecture On A Dull Day When There Isn't Even A Fly Around To Kill
For The Girl Standing Outside My Window

A Conversation on Morality and A Kind Of Lecture On A Dull Day When There Isn't Even A Fly Around To Kill would not be published again until 1988’s The Roominghouse Madrigal, while For The Girl Standing Outside My Window would never be published again.

Slim Killers would later appear in Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, while Poem For Dante and The Conditions Storm would not be published again for 46 years until 2002’s Storm for the Living and the Dead. Poem For Dante would also be published by Tangerine Press in 2017.

Contributors include Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga (interviewed), Charles Bukowski, Ron Silliman, Doug Palmer, Douglas Blazek, Michael Upton, et al.

This copy is in Near Fine condition with some gentle shelf wear to the covers.

Overall, a beautiful copy of this poetry journal edited by Richard Krech and published by The Berkely Free Press.

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