Published in 1966, OLE 4 is a great issue for Bukowski collectors.
There is a review of Bukowski’s new book (at the time), Cold Dogs in the Courtyard.
An advertisement for CONFESSIONS OF A MAN INSANE ENOUGH TO LIVE WITH BEASTS.
Bukowski’s small review/plug of Steve Richmond’s Earth Books & Gallery in Santa Monica, California.
Book advertisements for Bukowski associates William Wantling and Carl Larsen.
And the first appearance Bukowski poem:
O, We Are The Outcasts, O We Burn In Wondrous Flame
The poem would later appear in The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988)
Ole was published by Doug Blazek, a fellow poet and early proponent of Bukowski’s work. They were friends and had a lengthy correspondence between 1964 to 1968. As with several other writers, the relationship ended abruptly after their first meeting in person.
Blazek published Bukowski in all eight issues of Ole between 1964 and 1967, and was responsible for Bukowski’s return to prose, publishing the chapbooks CONFESSIONS OF A MAN INSANE ENOUGH TO LIVE WITH BEASTS and ALL THE ASSHOLES IN THE WORLD AND MINE.
This copy is in Near Fine condition with some light sunning to the covers and small bumps to the covers.
Box 15
