OLE No. 6 – One Uncollected, One First Appearance Charles Bukowski Poem (1966)

Published in July 1966, OLE No. 6 featured two Charles Bukowski poems:

• Nature Poem
• The Noiseless Care Of A Blue Violet

The Noiseless Care Of A Blue Violet has not yet been published again.

Nature Poem would not be published for another 30 years when it appeared in Betting on the Muse (1996).

There is also a a list of Bukowski-related items on the final page.

Contributors include Brown Miller, Steve Richmond, John Cornillon, Stanley Fisher, Harold Norse, Marcus J. Grapes, Steve Osterlund, Phil Kienholz, Larry Eigner, Al Purdy, Geo Montgomery, D.R. Wagner, Rik Davis, Jeff Nuttall, Tom McNamara, Wm. Wantling, Dennis Saleh, Sid Rufus, Ben L. Hiatt, Kell D. Robertson, Rich Krech, Donald Cauble, Charles Bukowski, Barbara O'Connelly.

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.

Unfortunately, this copy has a previous owner’s initials on the cover (perhaps someone stole his underwear on a sleepover as a kid). There is also a large bump on the upper right of the front cover impacting the pages, a bit of toning to the covers, and some small tears and folds on the page edges due to the format.

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