Fire Station by Charles Bukowski (second Printing)

Fire Station was published by Capra Press 1970. It would be the last time a Bukowski book was published by someone besides Black Sparrow Press for many years.

Fire Station was actually made up of “leftover” poems that didn’t make the cut for The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills.

Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin hired Sanford Dorbin to select the poems that appeared in The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills. The two disagreed vehemently on some of the poems that should appear in the book. As a result, Dorbin took the poems Martin rejected for the book and approached CAPRA Press, who used them in Fire Station.

Like the poems in The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills, all of the poems in Fire Station previously appeared in poetry journals during the previous decade.

This is the stated Second Printing that was published the same year. It is in Near Fine-plus condition with deckled edges on the covers.

Box 20