Nomad Vol. 5/6 -- Early Essay and Two First Appearance Poems by Charles Bukowski (1960)

Published in 1960, Nomad Vol. 5/6 featured Bukowski’s essay:

Manifesto: A Call For Our Own Critics

The essay would not be published again for 50 years when it appeared in Absence of the Hero (2010).

This issue also featured two Bukowski poems:

So Much For The Knifers, So Much For The Bellowing Dawns
The Day It Rained At The Los Angeles County Museum

So Much For The Knifers, So Much For The Bellowing Dawns would appear in Longshot Pomes for Broke Players (1961).

The Day It Rained At The Los Angeles County Museum appeared in Bukowski’s first book Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail (1960), It Catches My Heart In Its Hands (1963), Penguin Modern Poets (1968), A Bukowski Sampler (1969), and Burning in Water Drowning in Flame (1974).

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

This would mark only the 39^th appearance of Bukowski in any magazine.

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 some light browning and creases to the covers. Binding is solid and interior pages are clean.

All in all, a solid copy of this poetry journal out of Culver City, California.

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