Wormwood 100 #559/700 – Good Stuff Special Charles Bukowski Section 13 Poems, Three Uncollected (1985)

If you’re a Bukowski collector and you have not purchased the Wormwood Review special issues, time is not on your side. These get harder to find and more expensive all the time.

Charles Bukowski always felt Wormwood Review was the best small magazine out there and was grateful that they were one of the first to recognize his work. In return, Bukowski continued to contribute to the magazine right up until his death in 1994.

Published in 1985, this is the special 100^th issue of Wormwood Review. To celebrate, editor Carl Malone published a special 16-page center section of Charles Bukowski’s poems.

Titled Good Stuff, it features 13 Bukowski poems, 3 of which have yet to be published in any books. The other 10 poems first appeared here first, prior to them being edited.

There were only 700 copies printed, this being hand-numbered #559.

This copy is in fine condition.

One For Dear Old Dad, Wrong Way, and 100 Jumbo Gem Clips And Some Hollywood Cigarettes have yet to be published again.

An Importation and A Close Call While Shopping would appear in Open All Night (2000).

Morning After and The Old Movie Star would appear in The Continual Condition (2009).

Casablanca And Everything and Back To The Machinegun would appear in The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (2001).

Emergency appeared in Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005).

An Importation would appear in Open All Night (2000).

The 7 Horse would appear in The People Look Like Flowers At Last (2007).

Good Stuff would appear in Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way (2002).

Wormwood Review was published by the legendary Marvin Malone (1930-1996). Malone was a pharmacologist, scientific researcher, educator, artist, poetry collector, and editor. Upon arrival to Storrs, Connecticut in 1960, Malone discovered the second issue of Wormwood Review and soon took over the publication as the sole editor, publisher, and designer (alias A. Sypher), producing quarterly issues until his death in 1996.

Wormwood Review ran for 144 issues (1959-1997). Christa Malone, Marvin's daughter, co-edited issue 144 after Marvin's death, and released issue 145/146 as a special tribute issue to Marvin in 1999.

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