Going Modern Oro Madre No. 10 -- Suppressed Charles Bukowski Chapbook with One Uncollected, Five First Appearance Poems

This rare chapbook was printed by Ruddy Duck Press in 1984, but it was never released because Bukowski’s editor supposedly frowned on the design for some reason. All 500 copies were supposed to be destroyed, but a few seem to have survived.

The Bukowski poems include:

Endurance
The Old Helping the Old
See: Ending
The Improbable Probability
Garbage
Going Modern

Ending and The Improbable Probability have yet to be published again.

Endurance would appear in Pink Silks (2001) and Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way (2002).

The Old Helping The Old and Garbage appeared in You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986) and Run With the Hunted (1993).

Going Modern appeared in Storm for the Living and the Dead (2017).

Under the name Rudy Duck Press, Loss Pequeno Glazier published Oro Madre magazine out of Freemont, California. Bukowski appeared in two issues of Oro Madre, as well as two all-Bukowski chapbooks: Going Modern and All’s Normal Here.

Published in 1985, All's Normal here was a thick perfect-bound book with Bukowski drawings poems, letters, and essays. There is a rare version of 27 officially-issued copies signed by Bukowski and the editor.

This copy is in Fine condition.

Box 14