Long Shot Vol. 5 -- One Uncollected, Two First Appearance Charles Bukowski Poems (1987)

Published in 1987, Long Shot Vol. 5 featured the Bukowski poems:

Pardon Me, You Got Some Light?
Postcard
Moving Up The Ladder

Pardon Me, You Got Some Light? Has yet to be published again.

Postcard and Moving Up The Ladder both appeared in Septuagenarian Stew (1990).

Contributors include Danny Shot, Bukowski, Sean Penn, Cookie Mueller and Eileen Myles, et al.

This copy is in Very Good ++ condition with some sticker residue on the front cover and some general wear to the white covers.

Long Shot was published by actor Sean Penn. Bukowski was friends with Penn (and Madonna who he wed in 1985). Bukowski was a bit disappointed when the two young millionaires assumed he would pay for dinner the first time they went out, and Penn was disappointed when Bukowski did not pick him to play Chinaski in Barfly. Bu the two kept in touch until Bukowski’s death and there are some great photographs of the two together.

Bukowski would appear in five issues of this literary journal edited by Danny Shot out of New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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