Sparrow Magazine 54 (Maybe Tomorrow) – Chapbook Devoted To Poems by Charles Bukowski (1977)

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on new books being published, at least in Bukowski’s case, because all four Sparrows dedicated to his poems would not be published until 1979’s “Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.”

There were usually first and second printings of Sparrow. The covers of the first printings were printed in red on white, while the second editions were black and white.

This is one of the first printings of “Maybe Tomorrow” (Sparrow 54), which was published in March 1977. The poems include:

• 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

This copy is in Near Fine condition.

Box 30