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Published in May 1964, Literary Times Vol. 3, No. 4 featured a front-page article by Bukowski who menacingly criticizes fellow poets and poetry journals.
First up is the journal Poetry Chi, who Bukowski “buried” as “diminished into the bones of its reputation”.
Next is Robert Creeley, who he recommends for insomnia, and declares poetry schools now dead, thinly veiled reference to The Black Mountain Poets.
Finally, he declares the state of poetry in the United States as having “as much guts showing as at a tea for the Retired Ladies of the Auxiliary to Chase Phantoms out of the closets of Dog Catchers.”
It’s a great moment in time, with Bukowski obviously enjoying some swagger with the release of It Catches My Heart In Its Hands.
Based out of Chicago, the Literary Times was published by Jay Robert Nash, who would publish Bukowski’s Cold Dogs in the Courtyard in 1965 under the imprint Cyfoeth, Chicago Literary Times.
This copy is (miraculously) in Near Fine condition.
Box 16
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