Run with the Hunted -- Midwest Poetry Chapbooks (1962)

“Run with the Hunted” was published in 1962 by Midwest Poetry Chapbooks out of Chicago. It is considered Bukowski’s third book and only 300 copies were published.

This copy also comes with a review of the book that appeared in Elizabety IV, published in October 1962. The review was written by Northwest poet Gena Ford.

“Run with the Hunted” was edited by R.R. Cuscaden, an early proponent of Bukowski’s work. Cuscaden and Ron Offen were co-editors of Odyssey: Explorations in contemporary poetry and the arts from 1958-1959. Vol. 11, No. 1, of the magazine (1959) featured the Bukowski poems I Live Too Near The Slaughterhouse and When Hugo Wolf Went Mad. The later is considered one of Bukowski’s greatest works, appearing in five Bukowski books and captured on four recordings.

Cuscaden and Offen were also co-editors of Midwest. Bukowski appeared in four issues of the magazine between 1961 and 1964. Later Offen, along with Jay Robert Nash,  would publish Bukowski’s Cold Dogs in the Courtyard in 1965 under the imprint Cyfoeth, Chicago Literary Times.

This copy is in Near Fine condition with a small bump on the upper right and some slight foxing to the tip of the spine. See pics

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