Wormwood Review 122-123: Deluxe Issue Signed by Charles Bukowski (43/70)

Published in 1991, this is the Deluxe edition of Wormwood 122/123, named People Poems. It is signed by Charles Bukowski on the rear of the front cover and number 43/70. On the colophon, it is also numbered in letters: “forty three”.

This copy is in Very Fine condition with sharp corners.

There are five poems in this chapbook that have yet to be published again. There are dozens more that were published after his death and altered significantly – including the titles.

Only 700 copies of the chapbook were printed.

The chapbook is 48 pages long and contains the following 43 poems:

The Mutilation Of The Species, The Roaches, A Lady With Some French Wine, Poem About A Lady With A Red Face And Long Blonde Hair, and The Action have yet to be published again.

Journey, Ding-Dong, Madman, The Mirror Game, A Little Cafe On 6th Street In Pedro, Dreiser Wasn't So Hot Either,  Snake-Eyes, Red Tennis Shoes, Mailbag, The Two Toughest Apes In The South Bay Area, A Re-Evaluation, Suitable, Band-Aid, Self-Invites, Horse Fly, Rosary, Counsel, A Final Word On No Final, Each Man's Hell Is Different Words, The Lady Who Looks Young Forever wpuld all later appear in Bone Palace Ballet (1997).

Bad Times At The 3rd And Vermont Hotel, My Non-Ambition Ambition, No Nonsense, Those Girls We Followed Home, Emily Bukowski, and The Crazy Truth all previously appeared in You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986).

Red, Just Trying To Get A Little Service, and The Fighter appeared in Septuagenarian Stew (1990).

Car Wash appeared in The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992), Run With the Hunted (1993) and The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).

Somebody appeared in Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972), Run With the Hunted (1993), and The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).

My Friend, The Parking Lot Attendant  appeared in You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986) and Bone Palace Ballet (1997).

Cancer appeared in Septuagenarian Stew (1990) and Run With the Hunted (1993).

The Famous Writer appeared in War All the Time (1984).

About Pain appeared in War All the Time (1984) and The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).

Free Dinner appeared in Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way (2002).

Oh, Yes appeared in War All the Time (1984), People Poems (1991), The Pleasures of the Damned (2007), and Essential Bukowski: Poetry (2016).

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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