Sparrow Magazine 54: Maybe Tomorrow

Published in March 1977 by Black Sparrow Press, the entire issue of Sparrow 54 was dedicated to Charles Bukowski poems. This copy is in Near Fine condition with a price mark on the cover and a bump on the upper right.

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.

The magazine 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based on new books being published, at least in Bukowski’s case, because all four Sparrows dedicated to his poems would not be published until 1979’s “Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.”

Titled Maybe Tomorrow, Sparrow 54 features the Bukowski poems:

·        Claws Of Paradise

• Hot Month
• Maybe Tomorrow
• The Drunk Tank Judge
• The Happy Life Of The Tired
• The Loner
• The Proud Thin Dying
• The Sandwich
• Under

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