Oro Madre Vol. 2 -- One Drawing, Two First Appearance Poems Charles Bukowski Poems (1983)

Published in 1983, Oro Madre Vol. 2, No. featured two Bukowski poems:

A Smile To Remember
About The Love Poems Of The Cat

A Smile To Remember would appear later in The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (2001) and The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).

About The Love Poems Of The Cat would appear in the sister publication, All's Normal Here (1985).

Inside also includes an advertisement for the Bukowski issue All’s Normal Here.

Contributors include Wilfredo Q. Castano, Barbara Jamison, Leslie Simon, Tony Moffeit, Ivan Arguelles, Lyn Lifshin, Gerry Locklin, et al.

Under the name Rudy Duck Press, Loss Pequeno Glazier published Oro Madre magazine out of Freemont, California. Bukowski appeared in two issues of Oro Madre, as well as two Bukowski anthologies.

Published in 1984, Going Modern was a small chapbook with Bukowski poems and some charcoal drawings. The book was never released because Bukowski’s editor frowned on the design for some reason. All 500 copies were supposed to be destroyed, but a few seem to have survived.

Published in 1985, All's Normal here was a thick perfect-bound book with Bukowski drawings poems, letters, and essays. There is a rare version of 27 officially-issued copies signed by Bukowski and the editor.

This copy is in Fine condition.

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