Sparrow Magazine 72: We’ll Take Them

Published in September 1978 by Black Sparrow Press, the entire issue of Sparrow 72 was dedicated to Charles Bukowski poems.

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based on new books being published, at least in Bukowski’s case, because all four Sparrows dedicated to his poems would not be published until 1979’s “Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.”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 We’ll Take Them, Sparrow 72 included the poems:

• 59 Cents A Pound
• 8 Rooms
• Close Encounters Of Another Kind
• Horse And Fist
• Hug The Dark
• I Liked Him
• Junk
• Mermaid
• Metamorphosis
• Promenade
• The Killer Smiles
• We'll Take Them

This copy is in Very Good + condition with stains, bumps and creases on the covers, Some creases impact the interior pages, b a solid copy.

Box 45