Northwest Extra! UNFOLDED -- First Appearance Bukowski Poem, Plus Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson (1990)!

The November 1990 issue of Northwest Extra! features the first appearance of the Charles Bukowski poem, Happy Birthday.

The poem would later be collected in The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992).

This issue also features a column by Hunter S. Thompson titled, “A Night at the Track”.

The cover features a Robert Crumb drawing of Jack Kerouac and a review of the Rhino Records release of “The Jack Kerouac Collection”.

This copy was never folded and is in Near Fine + condition.

Northwest Extra! Was a high-quality zine published out of Seattle in the early 1990s. It was printed in a tabloid newspaper format and most copies you come across were folded because of its size.

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