Nomad 1 -- Four First Appearance Poems by Charles Bukowski (1959)

Published in 1959, Nomad 1 featured Four Bukowski Poems:

On The Failure Of A Poet, On The Failure Of The Earth
I Taste The Ashes Of Your Death
Regard Me
Winter Comes In A Lot Of Places In August

On The Failure Of A Poet, On The Failure Of The Earth would not be published for another 29 years until The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988)

I Taste The Ashes Of Your Death would appear in The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills (1969), Run With the Hunted (1993), and On Love (2016)

Regard Me Would appear in Bukowski’s first book Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail (1960), It Catches My Heart In Its Hands (1963), and The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988), as well as the recording At Terror Street and Agony Way.

Winter Comes In A Lot Of Places In August would appear in Longshot Pomes for Broke Players (1961), It Catches My Heart In Its Hands (1963), The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988), and Heat Wave (1995). It also appeard on the recordings At Terror Street and Agony Way and Bukowski Reads His Poetry (2004).

There’s also a brief biography in the Contributors section.

This would mark only the 25^th appearance of Bukowski in any magazine.

Contributors include Thomas McGrath, Harland Ristau, Alain Borne, Judson Crews, Theodore Donaldson, Emilie Glen, Curthis Zahn, and others.

Nomad was an avant-garde literary magazine that Anthony Linick and Donald Factor (the son of Max Factor Jr.) edited and published in Los Angeles between 1959 and 1962.

In the literary realm, Nomad played an early role in having published Charles Bukowski at an early date. Nomad's inaugural issue in 1959 featured two of Bukowski's poems, with Nomad publishing Bukowski before his first book, Flower Fist and Bestial Wail, appeared in 1960.[2] Nomad used Bukowski's poem So Much for the Knifers, So Much for the Bellowing Dawns as a prologue to its "Manifesto" issue, because the poem epitomized the anti-academic tone Linick and Factor wanted to feature.

This copy is in Very Good + condition with staining and a price mark to the front cover and browning to the rear cover. There’s some edge wear and small bumps on all four corners. Binding is solid.

All in all, a solid copy of this inaugural issue out of Culver City, California.

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