Runcible Spoon -- Three Uncollected Poems, One First Appearance by Charles Bukowski (1970)

Published in 1970 by D.R. Wagner, Runcible Spoon featured four Bukowski poems:

Dooby Do Do Do
Shoot The Goat Through The Head And Paint The Bones Green
The Shit Shits
The Vast Area Of Space Nothingness With With Snakes Crawling Through You And Everything

Dooby Do Do Do, Shoot The Goat Through The Head And Paint The Bones Green, and
The Vast Area Of Space Nothingness With Snakes Crawling Through You And Everything, have yet to be published again.

The Shit Shits would later appear 37 years later in The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).

Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Howard McCord, Doug Blazek, T. L. Kryss, Charles Tidler, Grace Butcher; Robert Creeley, Brown Miller, Carlos Reyes, Dave Kelly. et al.

D.R. Wagner was a publishing force in the 1960s.  Under Niagara and Runcible Spoon presses, he produced over 50 magazines and chapbooks. Bukowski appeared in many of these publications, which were very artistic in nature, albeit with the low production value associated with so many publications of the time. A fellow poet and author over 20 books of poetry and letters of his own, Wagner did much to publicize Bukowski’s work in the 1960s.

This copy is in Very Good ++ condition binding with the rear cover separated from the staples used to bind it. The cover, by T.L. Kryss, and an interior lithograph, were printed on heavy stock, which was too thick the shorter staples. Many copies have the same issue.

A very nice copy of one of the many publications Wagner published in his career.

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