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OPEN CITY No. 8, June 23–29, 1967 — Bukowski Notes and Poem, Monterey Pop Festival, Angry Arts Poetry Supplement

OPEN CITY No. 8, June 23–29, 1967 — Bukowski Notes and Poem, Monterey Pop Festival, Angry Arts Poetry Supplement

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An issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" — Bukowski is also listed on the masthead as a Contributing Editor. The column content is not fully legible from the available photographs due to image quality; a synopsis will be added at the final compile.

A centerfold poetry supplement, "Poets of the Angry Arts," features work by Bukowski alongside John Haag, Austin Black, Stanley Kurnick — a poet Bukowski famously lampooned in his writing, notably included here — Josephine Ain, Ginger Osborn, Paul J. Sailer, Jack Hirschman, Kenneth Patchen, Samuel A. Eisenstein, and John Thomson.

The front cover features a bold caricature of President Johnson. Interior includes a two-page photo spread on the Monterey Pop Festival with on-the-ground dispatches and photographs. Large tabloid format, 17" x 11", black and white throughout.

Provenance: Pink mailing label on back cover addressed to John Bryan Sr. at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his place of work.

This copy has an uneven fold, resulting in tears to the bottom part of the pages. There is about a one inch tear on the right side of the fold and a tiny tear on the right. And very little browning.

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