Published in 1961, Midwest No. 3 featured three Bukowski poems that would be collected in Run With The Hunted the following year.
Bukowski has signed this copy on the title page. Please note that this is a later signature.
This copy is in Near Fine condition with some light toning on the front cover near the spine and both covers having some light general overall wear. Interior pages are clean and spine is solif.
The poems in this issue include:
A Minor Impulse To Complain Monday Beach, Cold Day Sundays Kill More Men Than Bombs
Midwest was published by R.R. Cuscaden and Ron Offen. Bukowski appeared in four issues of the magazine between 1961 and 1964.
Cuscaden and Offen were early proponents of Bukowski’s work who were co-editors of Odyssey: Explorations in contemporary poetry and the arts from 1958-1959. Vol. 11, No. 1, of the magazine (1959) featured the Bukowski poems I Live Too Near The Slaughterhouse and When Hugo Wolf Went Mad.
Cuscaden would publish “Run with the Hunted” in 1962 and Offen (along with Jay Robert Nash) would publish Bukowski’s Cold Dogs in the Courtyard in 1965.
