Coastlines 20 -- Jon Webb Short Story and First Appearance Charles Bukowski Poem (1963)

Coastlines was a long-running poetry journal that was very influential in the L.A poetry scene and an early proponent of Bukowski’s work.

Published in 1963, Coastlines 20 featured the early Bukowski poem, Warble In.

The poem would not be published again for 54 years until it appeared in 2017’s Storm for the Living and the Dead.

This issue also includes a short story by John Edgar Webb, editor of The Outsider magazine and publisher of the Bukowski books “It Catches My Heary In Its Hands” and “Crucifix In A Deathhand”.

Laid in is sheet with an urgent plea for support for Coastlines.

Contributors include: Michael Benedikt, Charles Bukowski, Jascha Kessler, Jack Anderson, Menelaos Guskos, John Haines, Priscilla Shames, Jean Burden, Sister Mary Gilbert, F.X. Mathews, Ann Stanford, Robert Sward, Melvin Rosenberg, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Felix Stefanile, David Lyttle, and Myron Levy; with fiction by George Hitchcock, R.B. Irvine, and Jon Edgar Webb and an editorial by Barding Dahl.

This copy is in Near Fine condition with bumps on the top and bottom left corners of the cover. Overall, a very nice copy of this long-running, influential poetry journal.

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