BEAUTI-FUL, Wormwood Review 110-111: Deluxe Edition Signed by Bukowski (#21/75)

Published in 1988, this is the Deluxe edition of Wormwood Review 110/111, which was given the name BEAUTI-FUL. It is one of 75 copies signed by Charles Bukowski, this one being hnd-numbered “twenty one”.

Bukowski added his signature to the cover himself. On other issues, Bukowski might also do a drawing or sign it twice, but he was very ill when this issue was produced.

This copy is a Mint, unread copy.

There are three poems in this chapbook that have yet to be published again. There are many more

The 19 Bukowski poems include:

Hemingway's Shadow, The Tax Consultant and It's All So Clearly Simple have yet to be published again.

Bright Boy, One Out, Swivel, and The Yellow Pencil would later appear in Come On In! (2006).

Letter To A Friend With A Domestic Problem later appeared in Storm for the Living and the Dead (2017).

I Been Working On The Railroad later appeard in Storm for the Living and the Dead (2017).

The Main Course and No Man Is An Island, Especially Around Hollywood Park later appeared in The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (2001).

Beauti-Ful, Macho Man, and Transformation And Disfiguration At The P.O. appeared in War All the Time (1984).

40 Years Ago In That Hotel Room later appeared in On Love (2016), On Drinking (2019), and The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (2001).

Fooling Marie later appeared in On Drinking (2019), Come On In! (2006) and

The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).

Red Mercedes appeared in You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986) and Heat Wave (1995).

The End Of An Era would later appear in The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain (2004).

Wormwood Review was published by the legendary Marvin Malone (1930-1996). Malone was a pharmacologist, scientific researcher, educator, artist, poetry collector, and editor. Upon arrival to Storrs, Connecticut in 1960, Malone discovered the second issue of Wormwood Review and soon took over the publication as the sole editor, publisher, and designer (alias A. Sypher), producing quarterly issues until his death in 1996.

Wormwood Review ran for 144 issues (1959-1997). Christa Malone, Marvin's daughter, co-edited issue 144 after Marvin's death, and released issue 145/146 as a special tribute issue to Marvin in 1999.

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