Sparrow Magazine 30: Signed by Charles Bukowski (1975)

Sparrow Magazine 30: Signed by Charles Bukowski (1975)

Published by Black Sparrow Press in 1975, this is a beautiful copy of Sparrow 30. The title for this issue is Africa, Paris, Greece and it is entirely devoted to Charles Bukowski poems.

In New Fine+ condition, Bukowski has signed this copy of the front cover.

The poems include:

• Blue Moon, Oh Bleweeww Mooooon How I Adore You!
• Face Of A Political Candidate On A Street Billboard
• Interviews
• Nothing Is As Effective As Defeat
• Solid State Marty
• Success
• Yankee Doodle

John Martin started publishing Sparrow Magazine back in 1973.  It featured softcover issues dedicated to a single poet that Black Sparrow Press had under contract. It doesn’t appear to have had a regular publishing schedule, so I’m not sure what the occasion was for putting out an issue. It wasn’t based on new books being published, at least in Bukowski’s case, because all four Sparrows dedicated to his poems would not be published until 1979’s “Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.” That was one year after the last issue Bukowski would appear in.

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