OLE No. 8 – One Uncollected Charles Bukowski Poem (1967), Final Issue

Published in April 1967, OLE No. 8 featured two Charles Bukowski poems:

Love Makes Its Gun Into The Horrible Cunt Of Life

The long poem, which runs four pages, has yet to be published again.

This would be the final issue of OLE (an anthology would be published the same year) with publisher Doug Blazek leaving Illinois for California. Compared to OLE No. 1, OLE 8 had evolved significantly in both production value and the quality of its contributors.

Contributors include T.L. Kryss, Brown Miller, George Sparling, Terry Stokes, Clive Matson, Wm. Wantling, John Buckner, Sid Shapiro, Charles Plymell, Gil Orlovitz, Norman Hoegberg, Rik Davis, Curt Rosenstrauch, Norman Moser, George Montgomery, Dennis Williams, Rich Krech, Aram Boyajian, L.M. Herrickson, Shael Herman, Rbt Head, Geo Dowden, Charles Bukowski, Stanley Fisher, Jeff Nuttall, Norman Thomas, D.R. Wagner, Pete LaRouche, Michael Perkins, Dave Etter, Al Purdy, Steve Richmond, Dennis Saleh, Don Cauble, Marcus J. Grapes, Gerard Van der Leun, Jerome Wallace, Herbert L. Gard.

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 Very Good ++ condition with some general wear and light creases to the white covers and a bit of sunning to the spine. The front cover extends beyond the interior pages and has some tiny tears and folds.  

Box 46